Constance Baker Motley Quotes - Page 2

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• King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

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  Kings, Claims, Civil Disobedience

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

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  Common, Single Relationship, This Society

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

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  Distance, Father, Class

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

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  Rights, Movement, Women's Rights

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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.

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  Racism, Racist, Environment

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

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  Leadership, Kings, Rights

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

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  Kings, White, Georgia

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

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  Ymca, Views, World

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

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  Differences, Significant, Riders

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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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  Writing, School, Tuberculosis

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• The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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  College, Black, South Carolina

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

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  Different, Action, Form

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• My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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  Grandmother, Parent, Slave

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• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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  School, Law, Found

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

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  Class, White, Population

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

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  College, Black, Resistance

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

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  Race, White, Majority

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