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
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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