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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"Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength, and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!"

- Ruby Bridges

Courage

"Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail."

- Ruby Bridges

Ambition

"Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence."

- Ruby Bridges

Morality

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"In a sense, your small and simple sacrifices are the dots of daily living that make up the masterpiece painting of your life. You may not see how the dots connect now, and you don’t need to yet. Simply have faith enough for the moment you are living in now. Trust in God, and ‘out of small things [will come] that which is great’ [Doctrine and Covenants 64:33]."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith

"With God all things are possible."

Faith

"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

Faith

"Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’"

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"Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’"

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