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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
Born
Racism
Environment
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" The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. "
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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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" We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954. "
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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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" 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. "
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" By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. "
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Media
" King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. "
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Legal
" In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. "
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View
Get
" We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. "
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Then
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" How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? "
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Community
American
" Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. "
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Different
Action
Because
" Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. "
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Race
Question
White
" Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. "
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Harlem
Broadened
Living
" I soon found law school an unmitigated bore. "
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Soon
Law School
Law
" The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. "
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Racism
Fact
Diminished
" 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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Life
Risk
White
" Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. "
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See
Many
Group
" I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. "
Constance Baker Motley
Me
School
Homework
" The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. "
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Class
Middle
Two
" Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. "
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Kind
Person
Me
" 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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Legal
Myself
High School
" 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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Train
Remember
Leaving
" The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. "
Constance Baker Motley
Population
White
Wide
" There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us. "
Constance Baker Motley
Women
Will
Far
" Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. "
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Like
I See
Class
" Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. "
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Involved
Matters
Race
" When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. "
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Good Idea
Lawyer
Idea
" There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. "
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Society
Common
Longer
" The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. "
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Legal
Freedom
Significant