Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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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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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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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 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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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
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Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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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.
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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
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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.