Constance Baker Motley Quotes

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.

By 1962, King Had Become, By The Media's Reckoning, The New Civil Rights Leader.

King Thought He Understood The White Southerner, Having Been Born And Reared In Georgia And Trained A Theologian.

Living At The Ymca In Harlem Dramatically Broadened My View Of The World.

We Americans Entered A New Phase In Our History - The Era Of Integration - In 1954.

Columbia Law School Men Were Being Drafted, And Suddenly Women Who Had Done Well In College Were Considered Acceptable Candidates For The Vacant Seats.

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.

The Black Population Now Consists Of Two Distinct Classes-the Middle Class And The Poor.

Whites Would Rather Not Be Involved In Race Matters, I Think.

In My View, I Did Not Get To The Federal Bench Because I Was A Woman

When Thurgood Marshall Became A Lawyer, Race Relations In The United States Were Particularly Bad.

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.