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Constance Baker Motley

"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."

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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."

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"God Himself is the power that makes prayer work."

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"Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!"

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"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"

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"I heard my teacher said "great people make history". I am not concern about "great" or "people" or "history". I am concerned about "make" and it keeps me asking the next question "how?"! They are Determined and Disciplined!"

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"Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere."

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"If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?"

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"But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live forever. And we are asking them to do a quite different job, for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us- on the laymen."

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"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"

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"Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration."

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"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
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"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."
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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."
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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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"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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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
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"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."
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"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
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