Ruby Bridges Quotes

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

I felt like there was something I needed to do - speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I dream of a post-racial society that is not categorized by the color of their skin.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

By 2000, the last traces if racial and religious discrimination will have disappeared [from New York City].

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.

The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to racism, yet far less confident in talking to each other as human beings with similar hopes, problems and aspirations.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.