Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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
Constance Baker Motley

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

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

Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.