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
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.
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
class racism warfare
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
class white population
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
differences significant riders
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
class two black
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
cities new-orleans atmosphere
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.
leaving bob toes
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.
views benches
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
ideas lawyer wanted
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
college black south-carolina
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina
common single-relationship this-society
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
distance father class
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.