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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has." — Constance Baker Motley
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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life." — Constance Baker Motley
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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." — Constance Baker Motley
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore." — Constance Baker Motley
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"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
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"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
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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman." — Constance Baker Motley
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"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience." — Constance Baker Motley
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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian." — Constance Baker Motley
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"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down." — Constance Baker Motley
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world." — Constance Baker Motley
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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks." — Constance Baker Motley
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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both." — Constance Baker Motley
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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor." — Constance Baker Motley
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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant." — Constance Baker Motley
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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think." — Constance Baker Motley
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"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats." — Constance Baker Motley
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"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?" — Constance Baker Motley
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"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions." — Constance Baker Motley
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"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished." — Constance Baker Motley
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"There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us." — Constance Baker Motley
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