Top 42 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

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

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

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

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

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.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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.