Constance Baker Motley Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.”

“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.”

“We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.”

“Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.”

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

“I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.”

“I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.”

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

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

“My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.”