Constance Baker Motley Quotes

• My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Grandmother   Parent   Slave  

  2913

• In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

  Constance Baker Motley

  Views   Benches  

  771

• King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings   Claims   Civil Disobedience  

  2029

• Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Thinking   Race   Matter  

  1963

• 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   Movement   Women's Rights  

  3620

• How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

  Constance Baker Motley

  Long   Community   Special  

  855

• 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

  Leaving   Bob   Toes  

  3663

• My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Distance   Father   Class  

  725

• We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Phases   Eras   Integration  

  3577

• I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Teenager   School   House  

  2441

• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class   Two   Black  

  2302

• A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Country   Fighting   People  

  376

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Class   Racism   Warfare  

  3992

• 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

  School   Race   Law  

  3792

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  Leadership   Kings   Rights  

  824

• The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Differences   Significant   Riders  

  2658

• King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Kings   White   Georgia  

  2635

• Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Ymca   Views   World  

  3089

• Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Inspirational   Inspiring   Women  

  3525

• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School   Law   Found  

  1281

• When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

  Constance Baker Motley

  Ideas   Lawyer   Wanted  

  3634

• I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Long   Enough   Profession  

  565

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  College   Black   Resistance  

  214

• Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Encouragement   Kind   Persons  

  1230

• I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism   Racist   Environment  

  731

• Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Different   Action   Form  

  1506

• There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Limits   Revolution  

  2992

• Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

  Constance Baker Motley

  White   Risk   Mississippi  

  4400

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

  Constance Baker Motley

  College   Southern   Black  

  3796

• The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism   Racist   Facts  

  359

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