Acceptable Quote by Constance Baker Motley Download Open image “We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.” — Constance Baker Motley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptable Blacks Exemplary Knew Know Now Only Then
I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that… — David Walker Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as noble and… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“We "BLACKS" we have many talents and many great things we can do in life...but we just don't have the ability to try.” — Ralph Ramovha Copy Share Image
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness. — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound like a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities… — Larry Doby 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
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured… — Sally Struthers Copy Share Image
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
