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We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.

Ruby Bridges

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
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Appearance Evil Myself Yourself
Evil isn’t prejudiced. It doesn’t care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It’s up to you whether you give it that place.
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Care Evil Place Yourself
The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.
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Appearance God Greatness Judgement Lesson Skin Teaching
Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.
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Children Heart Start World
I believe in my prayers.
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Believe Myself Prayer
My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that’s what I did.
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Enemy Mom Myself Prayer Yourself
My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.
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Faith Mom Myself
When it comes to love, never be reckless with someone else’s heart.
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Heart Love
Love is Love. Better to Love than Hate!!!
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Hate Love
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that’s a shame.
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Children Myself Ourselves Shame Thinking
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
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Appearance Bad Goodness Person Yourself
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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Black Children Myself Success
I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
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Believe Goodness Myself Togetherness
Our elders said back then that if Black folks really wanted to see Change, they had to step up to the plate and do it themselves. Somebody has to be First. Will that be you?
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Black Change Oppression Ourselves See Strength Yourself
I felt like there was something I needed to do – speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.
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Children Feeling Help Myself Need Place Story Understand
A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.
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Growth Myself Strength

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