78 Quotes by Ruby Bridges

Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.

I believe it doesn't do yourself any good to hate.

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.

I've seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there's no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I've also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown's father felt that way.

We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.

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.

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.