78 Quotes by Ruby Bridges

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

If we are about what is good today, then we that are good need to come together to fight what's bad out there.

I remember the first time seeing myself on TV, when my family was watching the documentary 'Eyes on the Prize' for the first time. There were pictures of people going up the school stairs, and Mom said, 'Oh, that's you!' I said, 'I can't believe this. This is important.'

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin.

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.