Words matter. These are the best Constance Baker Motley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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.
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
The women’s rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
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.
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women’s revolution will take us.
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
Today’s white majority is largely silent about the race question.
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.