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Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
By 1962, King had become, by the medias reckoning, the new civil rights leader. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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