Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.