Tag: Ruby Bridges
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We’d get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, ‘What makes you think all this is for you? You’ve got a sister right behind you.’ So then I realized, we’re all in this together. We have to help each other.
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When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil rights movement, you know, is to ban the assault weapons so that our babies can be safe.
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I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.
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Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn’t matter to us what we looked like.
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We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.
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Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
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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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I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.
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If my mama said not to do something, I didn’t do it.
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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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