Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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

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

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

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.

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

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.

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

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.