"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had……" — Constance Baker Motley
"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."
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44 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
- Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
- All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
- By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
- Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates…
- Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still…
- How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
- I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved…
- I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
- I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a…
- In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
- When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
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