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!'… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
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… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
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… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
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… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all:… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share
