Constance Baker Motley Quotes

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
Constance Baker Motley

Life, Success, Sex

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.
Constance Baker Motley

School, Writing, Through

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

Racism, Both, Next

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

Knew, Acceptable, Blacks

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

Different, Action, Complex

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

Black, State, Open

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

Leader, Become, Rights

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

Women, Men, School

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

Black, Away, Resistance

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

Life, Risk, White

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
Constance Baker Motley

Long, Special, American

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.
Constance Baker Motley

Before, Chance, Stage

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
Constance Baker Motley

Teen, School, Tell

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
Constance Baker Motley

Change, Legal, Live

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.
Constance Baker Motley

Time, Remember, Leaving

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
Constance Baker Motley

School, Law, Found

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

Racism, Nation, Born

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
Constance Baker Motley

Legal, School, Law

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

Woman, View, Bench

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
Constance Baker Motley

Legal, Away, King

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
Constance Baker Motley

Thought, Born, King

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

Person, Down, Put

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
Constance Baker Motley

Living, View, Harlem

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

Father, American, Distance

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

Parents, Slaves

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 14, 1921

Died: September 28, 2005

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