Alive Quote by Ruby Bridges Download Open image “We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.” — Ruby Bridges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Children I think Keep Racism Sad
I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
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
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
I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world. — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their… — Ruby Bridges 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 understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
