Ruby Bridges Quotes

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

Posterity will judge / Did we good or did we evil, / But for now - hand in hand - Let's move forward, our steps more sure!

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

No matter how mendacious elites may be, they cannot extinguish the forces for good in the world.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.

We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.

It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Injustice can never be stood for.