Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Ruby Bridges - Page 2

We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.

I'm the mother of four.

I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened.

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

If kids have the oportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want their friends to be. All children should have that choice. We, as adults, shouldn't make those choices for children. That's how racism starts.

I remember what it was like at age 6, not really understanding what was going on around me, but having all these grown-up thoughts running through my head about what I was facing, why this was happening.

There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.

I like to share my story with children, and they are amazed by the story.

I want to inspire kids.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.

My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.