Constance Baker Motley Quotes

American - Activist | September 14, 1921 - September 28, 2005

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

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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.

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

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

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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

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

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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

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