Adults Quote by Ruby Bridges Download Open image “Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.” — Ruby Bridges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adults Kids Knows Race Racism Taught
Being a little kid, you don't hear much about racism. You figure everybody's the same. If racism isn't taught, you're just a black kid… — Riddick Bowe Copy Share Image
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
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No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Racism is something that is taught. We, as a people, need to work to get past that. — Booker T Copy Share Image
Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
It's racist to teach children to treat other children differently because of their skin color. — Marjorie Taylor Greene 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
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
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Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
Part of life is doing stuff that you don't want to do. — One Who Does Not Wish To Be Named Copy Share Image
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image