How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 becaThe legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
