Differences Quote by Ruby Bridges Download Open image “Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.” — Ruby Bridges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Differences Diverse Get Past Should
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms'… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
In this country, we're okay with taking into account wealth and lineage and legacy status, but to look at racial balance in school, to… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
We know that when students learn in a diverse student body, they get a better education. Everyone benefits from that. — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is… — Georgie Anne Geyer 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
Administrations and administrative faculty work very hard to see that schools are diverse as much as possible. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I've never said that you should have segregation of the school system or any other. — George Wallace Copy Share Image
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King. — Jonathan Kozol 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
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz 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
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
