Ruby Bridges Quotes.
It’s not who you’re going to sit beside at school that matters now: it’s what resources will your school have.
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.
Somehow, it always worked. Kneeling at the side of my bed and talking to the Lord made everything okay.
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.
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.
From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.
You cannot look at a person and tell whether they’re good or bad.
I felt like there was something I needed to do – speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.
I remember the first time seeing myself on TV, when my family was watching the documentary ‘Eyes on the Prize’ for the first time. There were pictures of people going up the school stairs, and Mom said, ‘Oh, that’s you!’ I said, ‘I can’t believe this. This is important.’
What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.
Now that I’m a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.
We’d get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, ‘What makes you think all this is for you? You’ve got a sister right behind you.’ So then I realized, we’re all in this together. We have to help each other.
