Freedom Riders Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

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

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

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

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley