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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
— Constance Baker Motley
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
— Constance Baker Motley
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
— Constance Baker Motley
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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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
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Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
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The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
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Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
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Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
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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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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
— Constance Baker Motley
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
— Constance Baker Motley
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
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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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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
— Constance Baker Motley
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
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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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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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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
— Constance Baker Motley
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
— Constance Baker Motley
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
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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
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
— Constance Baker Motley
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
— Constance Baker Motley
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
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