Constance Baker Motley Quotes

• Algo que ahora nos parece imposible no lo será dentro de otra década.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Inspiración, Inspiración, Mujeres

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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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  Encouragement, Kind, Persons

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• A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

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  País, Lucha, Gente

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• There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

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  Limits, Revolution

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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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  Ideas, Lawyer, Wanted

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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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  Class, Racism, Warfare

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• When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

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  School, Rights, Law

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• Los afroamericanos hemos pasado la mayor parte del siglo XX luchando contra el racismo.

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  Racism, African American, Racist

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• I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

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  Long, Enough, Profession

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• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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  College, Southern, Black

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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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  Leaving, Bob, Toes

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• I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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  Teenager, School, House

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• How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

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  Long, Community, Special

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

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  Views, Benches

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• The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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  Racism, Racist, Facts

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• Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

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  Groups, Stills

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• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

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  Class, Two, Black

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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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  White, Risk, Mississippi

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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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  Escuela, Universidad, Hombres

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• Cuando Thurgood Marshall se hizo abogado, las relaciones raciales en Estados Unidos eran especialmente malas.

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  Race, Usa, United States

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• En el instituto me descubrí a mí mismo. Me interesaban las relaciones raciales y la profesión de abogado. Leí sobre Lincoln y que él creía que la abogacía era la más difícil de las profesiones.

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  School, Race, Law

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• We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

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  Phases, Eras, Integration

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• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

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  Firsts, Criminals, Alabama

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• Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

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  Thinking, Race, Matter

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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.

  Constance Baker Motley

  New Orleans, Cities, Atmosphere

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