Ruby Bridges

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.

Quotes

• You cannot look at a person and tell whether they're good or bad.
  • [1]

• Racism is a grown-up disease, and we must stop using our children to spread it.
  • [2] Ruby Bridges speaking at Memorial Church on April 18, 2002

• Good and evil comes in all shades and colors... evil is not prejudiced.... evil just needs an opportunity to work through you.... All of us, no matter what we look like, we all have a common enemy, and that is evil. If we don't understand that and come together, then evil will win.
  • [3] Ruby Bridges speaking at Memorial Church on April 18, 2002