Constance Baker Motley Quotes
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
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Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
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The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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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.
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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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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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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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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.
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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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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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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
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Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
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I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
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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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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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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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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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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
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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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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
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Constance Baker Motley
- Born: September 14, 1921
- Died: September 28, 2005
- Occupation: Former New York State Senator
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