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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."
"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."
"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Constance Baker Motley
"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
"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."
"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
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