Constance Baker Motley Quotes

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

Constance Baker Motley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1921 - September 28, 2005

Topics

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I never met Paul McCartney.

Jim Sturgess

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You know the discrimination: African-Americans couldn't go to certain schools, they couldn't use certain restrooms, there were other kinds of routine biases against them.

Jeff Sessions

DiscriminationYouRoutineGoKnow

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

Jeff Cooper

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I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

Jeff Goldblum

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I didn't really ever dream of going to the Olympics until after 2012.

Simone Biles

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The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Marvin Harris

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I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

Miranda Cosgrove

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I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

Jason Priestley

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Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

Dikembe Mutombo

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson

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As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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Everything that happens to you, I feel like it helps you develop as a person, as a player.

Phil Humber

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