African Quote by Ruby Bridges Download Open image “What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.” — Ruby Bridges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare African African american African americans Faith Our Religion
Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We found a faith in America and a fierce determination to make our institutions work again as they have so often in our history. — Conor Lamb Copy Share Image
“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African… — Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Copy Share Image
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
