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Constance Baker Motley

"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

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"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger."

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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."
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"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"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."
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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
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"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
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