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Constance Baker Motley [1921-2005] American

Rank: 102
Activist, Former New York State Senator

Constance Baker Motley was an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City. She was the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary by Lyndon B. Johnson. She was an assistant attorney to Thurgood Marshall arguing the case Brown v. Board of Education.

Legal, Chance, Freedom, Teen

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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.		101
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.		102
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.	Freedom, Legal	103
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.	Legal	104
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.		105
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.		106
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.	Chance	107
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.		108
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.		109
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.		110
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.		111
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.		112
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.		113
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.	Teen	114
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.		115
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.		116
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.		117
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.		118
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.		119
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.		120
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.		121
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.	Legal	122
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.	Legal	123
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?		124
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.		125
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.		126
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.		201
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.		202
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.		203
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.		204
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.		205
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.		206
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.		207
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.		208
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.		209
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.		210
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.		211
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.		212
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.		213
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.		214
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.		215
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.		216

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