"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears……" — Constance Baker Motley
"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
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44 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley
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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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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates…
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still…
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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved…
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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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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a…
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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
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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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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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