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

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."

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"Most races have a finish line, but some racists are running races where since they never hit the finish line, they never finish lying."

"Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again."

"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."

"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."

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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."

"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"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."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"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."

"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."

"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."