Author Profile
Constance Baker Motley
1921 – 2005 • American • Activist
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Collected Meditations
Showing 42 quotesDoing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.— Constance Baker Motley
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.— Constance Baker Motley
I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.— Constance Baker Motley
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.— Constance Baker Motley
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.— Constance Baker Motley
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.— Constance Baker Motley
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.— Constance Baker Motley
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.— Constance Baker Motley
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.— Constance Baker Motley
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.— Constance Baker Motley
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.— Constance Baker Motley
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.— Constance Baker Motley