Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

About Constance Baker Motley:

Constance Baker Motley was an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

Constance Baker Motley

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Constance Baker Motley

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Constance Baker Motley

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

Constance Baker Motley

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Constance Baker Motley

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Constance Baker Motley

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Constance Baker Motley

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Constance Baker Motley

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

Constance Baker Motley

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Constance Baker Motley

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.

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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.

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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

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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.

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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

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Author Bio

  • NameConstance Baker Motley
  • DescriptionAmerican politician and judge
  • BornSeptember 14, 1921
  • DiedSeptember 28, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Judge; Politician
  • AwardsSpingarn Medal; Presidential Citizens Medal; National Women's Hall Of Fame