Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

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.

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

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

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

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.