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… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin. — 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 Image
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 Image
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
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 Image
