Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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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. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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I soon found law school an unmitigated bore. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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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. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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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. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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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. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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