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Constance Baker Motley

"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."

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"I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them."

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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

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"I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship."

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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

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"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

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"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."

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"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

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"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."

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

Now

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Constance Baker Motley
"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

Life

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

History

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Constance Baker Motley
"There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us."

Woman

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Constance Baker Motley
"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

Fact

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Constance Baker Motley
"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."

Legal

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

Society

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Constance Baker Motley
"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats."

Man

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Constance Baker Motley
"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."

Legal

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Constance Baker Motley
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

Encouragement

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