Ruby Bridges

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth…

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The people I passed every morning as I walked up the school's steps were full of hate. They were white, but so…

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I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

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I believe in my prayers.

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As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to…

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If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly,…

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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…

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All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective…

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We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make…

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I believe that we have to come together, and we have to rely on the goodness of each other.

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My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

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There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary…

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You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

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The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach…

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I want to inspire kids.

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Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.

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I had never seen a white teacher before, but Mrs. Henry was the nicest teacher I ever had.

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If we are about what is good today, then we that are good need to come together to fight what's bad out…

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I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

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I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

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Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible.

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Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to…

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My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's…

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We have to take care of each other's children.

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I believe it doesn't do yourself any good to hate.

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