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Constance Baker Motley

"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."

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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."

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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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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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"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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"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
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"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."
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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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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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