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Quotes By Ruby Bridges
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.
I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.
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!
Racism is something that we, as adults, have kept alive. We pass it on to our kids. None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.
That first morning I remember mom saying as I got dressed in my new outfit, 'Now, I want you to behave yourself today, Ruby, and don't be afraid. There might be a lot of people outside this new school, but I'll be with you.
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.
My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.
Evil isn't prejudiced. It doesn't care you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It's up to you whether you give it that place.
We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.
I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.
Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.
I wish there were enough marshals to walk with every child as they faced the hatred and racism today, and to support, encourage them the way these federal marshals did for me.
When everyone in the neighborhood was over at my house congratulating my family on me passing the test, I thought they were congratulating me because I passed a test to go to college straight from kindergarten because I was so smart.
In order to truly make lasting positive change—to keep Dr. King's dream moving forward—we need to think big and act big.
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.
I've been told that my ideas are grandiose. Yes, they are. However, so were the ideas that marched me through screaming crowds and up the stairs of William Frantz Elementary more than 50 years ago.
[My teacher Mrs. Henry] taught me what Dr. King tried to teach all of us. We should never judge a person by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. That was the lesson I learned at 6 years old.
I believe that history should be taught in a different way. History definitely should be taught the way it happened—good, bad or ugly. History is sacred. For me history is a foundation and the truth.
The person that impacted my life the most would have to have been my father because he shaped me into who I am today.
We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society.
I then realized that it wasn't Mardi Gras, or college, it was about me going to school there. I wasn't mad at the boy because he said his mother said not to play with me because I was a n*****."If my mother said not to play with him because he was another race, I wouldn't.
