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
groups stills
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
phases eras integration
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
thinking race matter
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
racism racist environment
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
school rights law
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
race usa united-states
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
school law found
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
racism facts despite
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
racism african-american century
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism
kings white georgia
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
country fighting people
A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.
class racism warfare
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
encouragement kind persons
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
women thinking empowerment
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.