Ruby Bridges Quotes

The white and colored people of this country [can] be blended into a common nationality…

My school was actually really diverse.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

Assimilation was never the goal of the diverse ethnic groups in America. Inclusion without discomfort is now, and ever will be, the goal.

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. To the race or to the sect, which as such attempts to take possession of the politics or the public education of the country, true Americanism says, Hands off!

Australia will be a multiracial nation in the future.

There have been very few societies which are multi-racial and knew any degree of peace.

The opposite of segregation is not integration. Martin Luther King didn't dream about a completely integrated world. He knew this was a pluralistic society and that ethnics tend to keep an identity. It's not a contradiction.

One people out of many.

We honor cultural identity, but separatism is not allowed.

The moment we invite to our table men of another race ... we affirm that we acknowledge them as our fellow countrymen as they acknowledge we are theirs.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

Tolerance is common sense in a pluralistic society.

Today, Americans of all races stand side by side in Vietnam and Berlin. They died side by side in Korea. Surely they can work and eat and travel side by side in their own country.