All Ruby Bridges Quotes

#1. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.

Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.

Nova Ren Suma

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

Ruby Bridges

#3. 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!

Ruby Bridges

#4. New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.

David Letterman

#5. 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.

Ruby Bridges

#6. He who fails to plan,
is planning to fail.

Anonymous

#7. If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

Ron Atkinson

#8. You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Daniel Pipes

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

Ruby Bridges

#10. I would have waited until we got back to the States, waited like paja de arroz, burning slow, slow, until they dropped their guard and then one morning I would have disappeared. Like my father disappeared on my mother and was never seen again. Disappear like everything disappears.

Junot Diaz

#11. In prose fiction the freedom to work honestly exists, although you may have to fight for it. In those other areas of literature, I mean drama, there is only silence. That sort of aesthetic integrity does not exist in radio and television, and seldom on film.

James Kelman

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

Ruby Bridges