My family – my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
There are all kinds of monuments to adults – usually dead and usually white. But we don’t often lift up the extraordinary work of children. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It’s very satisfying. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
I never got the chance to meet Linda Brown; there were several times we were supposed to meet or be on the same stage together, but life gets in the way, and it never happened. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that’s what frightened me. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown’s father felt that way. Ruby Bridges Read Quote
