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Constance Baker Motley

"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

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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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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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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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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
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"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."
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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
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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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