Constance Baker Motley Quotes

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• Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Women

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Encouragement, Kind, Persons

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• There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Limits, Revolution

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• A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Country, Fighting, People

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, Racism, Warfare

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• We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Phases, Eras, Integration

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• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

  Constance Baker Motley

  College, Southern, Black

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• When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

  Constance Baker Motley

  Ideas, Lawyer, Wanted

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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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  Teenager, School, House

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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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• 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

  School, College, Men

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• Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Thinking, Race, Matter

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• Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Groups, Stills

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• When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Rights, Law

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Long, Enough, Profession

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• The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, Racist, Facts

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• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, White, Population

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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.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Race, Law

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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.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Writing, School, Tuberculosis

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

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  Grandmother, Parent, Slave

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• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class, Two, Black

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