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Constance Baker Motley

"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."

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"Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."

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"Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975."

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"Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information."

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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

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"And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing."

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"I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them."

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"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."

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"We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."

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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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"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."
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"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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"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
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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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"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."
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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
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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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