Constance Baker Motley Quotes

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

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

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TodayWhiteSilentRaceQuestion

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

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SocietySingleCommonEmerging

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

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WomenRevolutionWillHow FarLimit

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

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WomenMovementRightsSupportersHad

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

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WhiteClassPopulationMiddleWide

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

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FreedomLegalDifferenceSignificant

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

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RacismFactDespiteDiminished

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

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SocietyConstitutionEqualFactMade

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

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BlackNowClassPoorTwoMiddle

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.

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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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