Constance Baker Motley quotes

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. (Constance Baker Motley)
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. View quote
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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. View quote
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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. View quote
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. View quote
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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. View quote
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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. View quote
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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. View quote
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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. View quote
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? View quote
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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)
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. View quote
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Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. View quote
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. View quote
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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. View quote
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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. View quote
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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. View quote
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954. View quote
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. View quote
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. View quote
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. (Constance Baker Motley)
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. View quote
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The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. View quote
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I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. View quote
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. View quote
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