Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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

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

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

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

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.

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.