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Constance Baker Motley

"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."

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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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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."

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"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

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"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."

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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."

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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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"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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