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Constance Baker Motley

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

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Donna Grant

"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."

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Donna Grant

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."

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Donna Grant

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

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Donna Grant

"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"

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Donna Grant

"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"

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Donna Grant

"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."

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Donna Grant

"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."

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Donna Grant

"Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again."

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Donna Grant

"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."

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

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

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

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Constance Baker Motley
"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."

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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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Constance Baker Motley
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

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Constance Baker Motley
"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."

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Constance Baker Motley
"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats."

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Constance Baker Motley
"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."

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