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Constance Baker Motley
American Activist
Born: Sep 14, 1921
Died: Sep 28, 2005
American Been Blacks Racism School White
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. Constance Baker Motley
Good Thought Lawyer No-One Idea Wanted Decided Good Idea
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. Constance Baker Motley
Life Success Sex Would Bar Race Notion Rejected
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. Constance Baker Motley
Class Racism Sexism See Class Warfare Both Like Goes Warfare Century Us Next
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. Constance Baker Motley
Blacks Only Knew Know Exemplary Acceptable Then Now
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. Constance Baker Motley
Rights Women Rights Movement Emerged Except Had Supporters Movement
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us. Constance Baker Motley
Women Will Revolution No Limit Take Limit How How Far Far Us Appears
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
Myself Legal Law School Difficult Relations High High School About He Most Read Lincoln Discovered Interested Race Race Relations Profession Believed Professions
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954. Constance Baker Motley
History Our Entered New Era Integration American Phase
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. Constance Baker Motley
Racism Spent Battling Part Major Major Part American African African Americans Century Now
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. Constance Baker Motley
Group Too See Blacks Still Apart Whites Many
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. Constance Baker Motley
Black College State Carolina Admit College Level Student South South Carolina Level Last
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. Constance Baker Motley
Racism Despite Diminished Fact
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. Constance Baker Motley
Constitution Made Society Considered All Americans Drawn Members Fact Equal Reference American Originally
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. Constance Baker Motley
Class Black Distinct Consists Middle Middle Class Poor Population Now Two
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. Constance Baker Motley
World Living Dramatically Broadened View Harlem
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. Constance Baker Motley
Time Me Remember First Top Carter Put Head Around First Time Leaving Train Tip Screen Being Bob Toes Washington
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. Constance Baker Motley
Change Legal Thought Long Live Enough Would See Never Profession Extent
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. Constance Baker Motley
Rights King Leader Become Reckoning Civil Civil Rights Had New Media

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