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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Decided Good Good Idea Idea Lawyer Thought Wanted

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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: American Entered Era History Integration New Our Phase

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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Apart Blacks Group Many See Still Too Whites

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: About Largely Majority Question Race Silent Today White

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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Blacks Common Emerging Impediment Longer Single Society

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Appears Far How How Far Limit No Limit Revolution Take Us Will Women

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The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Emerged Except Had Movement Rights Rights Movement Supporters Women 1970S

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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Class Middle Middle Class Population White Wide

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Between Difference Freedom Legal Riders Significant

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The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Admit Black Carolina College Last Level South South Carolina State Student

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: September 14th, 1921

Died: September 28th, 2005

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