Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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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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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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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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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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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
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Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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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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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
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The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
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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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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
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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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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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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?