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Please God, try to forgive those people.
Because even if they say those bad things,
They don't know what they're doing.
So You could forgive them,
Just like You did those folks a long time ago,
When they said terrible things about You.

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges

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Born: September 8, 1954 (age 70)

Bio: Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American activist known for being the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

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