Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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

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

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

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

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

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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.