President Barack Obama, Ruby Bridges, and representatives of the Norman Rockwell Museum view Rockwell’s "The Problem We All Live With,” hanging in a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office, July 15, 2011. Bridges is the girl portrayed in the painting. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

"The girl in that painting at six-years-old knew absolutely nothing about racism. I was going to school that day. But the lesson that I took away that year in an empty school building was that none of us know anything about disliking one another when we come into the world. It is something that's passed on to us. So every time I see that I think about the fact that I was an innocent child that knew absolutely nothing about what was happening that day. But, that I learned a very valuable lesson and that is that we should never look a person and judge them by the color of their skin. That's the lesson that I learned in first grade." —Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges visits with the President and her portrait 
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