Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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.

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

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

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.

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

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

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

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

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.