Believe Quote by Ruby Bridges

“I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.”

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The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so was my…

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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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I believe in my prayers.

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As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices…

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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…

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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…

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All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for…

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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…

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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

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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…

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You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

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That's why I don't generally talk about endorsements because I don't believe we have to tell people who to vote for.

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