Constance Baker Motley Quotes - Page 2

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Common, Single Relationship, This Society

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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

  Racism, Racist, Environment

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Leadership, Kings, Rights

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• King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings, Claims, Civil Disobedience

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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.

  Constance Baker Motley

  New Orleans, Cities, Atmosphere

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings, White, Georgia

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• Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

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  Ymca, Views, World

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

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  Differences, Significant, Riders

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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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  Writing, School, Tuberculosis

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• The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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  College, Black, South Carolina

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Distance, Father, Class

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• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Law, Found

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• Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

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  Different, Action, Form

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Grandmother, Parent, Slave

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, White, Population

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• Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

  Constance Baker Motley

  College, Black, Resistance

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, White, Majority

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