"How long must the American community afford special……" — Constance Baker Motley
"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"
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44 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley has 44 quotes on this site.
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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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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
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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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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these…
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream…
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it…
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