Common Quote by Constance Baker Motley Download Open image “There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.” — Constance Baker Motley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Emerging Single relationship This society
We live in a racially imbalanced society and we always have been. Black people have been traditionally disenfranchised and abused and misused in this… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal. — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do not have… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium. — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we… — Dana Bash Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis 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
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
