Police Quote by Ruby Bridges

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

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

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

— Ruby Bridges

I believe in my prayers.

— Ruby Bridges

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Ruby Bridges

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

— Ruby Bridges

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