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Constance Baker Motley

"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."

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"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."

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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."

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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."

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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."

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"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."

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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
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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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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"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."
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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."
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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
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