Constance Baker Motley Quotes
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
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I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
