Ruby Bridges Quotes

Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened.

The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

Sport is something that crosses all boundaries and can really bring people together.

I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together - all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

If you bring people together, you’ve got something. If you can’t bring them together, you don’t got nothing.

You can’t throw a park down and think everybody is going to mix and be happy and share picnic tables and sing songs together.

The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

Sport is a way of uniting people.

End of the day, when you do something, you have to do something where you bring people together. You can't do something where you separate people.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work.

Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.

I'm a fan of people getting together.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

Separate not thyself from the community.

Work together, Eate Bread together, Declare this all abroad.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.