Pearl Bailey Quotes

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

I don't like being treated differently.

They taught me different was wrong.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Discrimination is the act of treating differently two persons or things, under like circumstances.

If you object that I discriminate, then I say to you, "You can organize your own club.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

Unfairness is everywhere.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.