Ruby Bridges Quotes

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

Regardless of your religious belief, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, there is no place in our communities for hate.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

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

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.

Hoosiers don't believe in discrimination.

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

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

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

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mistreated. Bisexuals should not be mistreated.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

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

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

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

I am not homophobic - in no way, shape or form.