Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in...

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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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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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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought...

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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration -...

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

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