Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motleywas an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth14 September 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Constance Baker Motley quotes about
school college men
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
kings media rights
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
college southern black
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
different action form
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
teenager school house
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
kings claims disobedience
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
college black resistance
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
limits revolution
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
views ymca world
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
school race law
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.
school writing tuberculosis
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.
grandmother parent slave
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
rights movement womens-rights
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
white race today
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.