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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. (Constance Baker Motley)

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

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The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. (Constance Baker Motley)

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

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Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

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Constance Baker Motley

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Occupation: American Activist
Born: September 14, 1921
Died: September 28, 2005
Quotes count: 43

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