Tag: Ruby Bridges
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I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.
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If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.
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We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown’s father felt that way.
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I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.
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There are all kinds of monuments to adults – usually dead and usually white. But we don’t often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
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Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.
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I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.
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If kids have the oportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want their friends to be. All children should have that choice. We, as adults, shouldn’t make those choices for children. That’s how racism starts.
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I believe it doesn’t do yourself any good to hate.
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If we’re gonna get past our our racial differences, it’s gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.
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