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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: Impossibility

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"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 Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

"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 Topics: American Activist

"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 Topics: American Activist

"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."

Constance Baker Motley Topics: American Activist

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