Constance Baker Motley was a famous Activist from USA, who lived between September 14, 1921 and September 28, 2005. He/she became 84 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Constance, under the main topic Teen.
36 Famous quotes by Constance Baker Motley
"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life"
"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society"
"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience"
"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"
"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted"
"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"
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down"
"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"
"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"
"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism"
"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"
"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves"
"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman"
"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"
"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white"
"Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks"
"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader"
"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think"
"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both"
"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian"
"We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954"
"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished"
"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore"
"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms"
"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea"
"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has"
"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats"
"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students"
"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad"
"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant"
"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework"
"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society"
"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina"
"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor"
"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks"
"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world"
