"In my view, I did not get to……" — Constance Baker Motley
"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman"
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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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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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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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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of…
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I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
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Bench me or trade me.
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No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans…
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