Bridges Quote by Ruby Bridges Download Open image “My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.” — Ruby Bridges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bridges Children Heart Heart and mind Messages Mind Our children Psychology Racism
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we… — Rosa Parks 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
I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin… — 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
Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
There are kids out there. We've got to show them the right way. That's the only way. People aren't born racist. C'mon now. We've… — Mike Evans 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
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
My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them. — Jacqueline Woodson 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
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
