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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.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: About Believed Difficult Discovered He High High School Interested Law Legal Lincoln Most Myself Profession Professions Race Read Relations School

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Born Environment Nation Officially Oldest Part Racism Raised Settled Which I Was Born

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I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Bore Found Law Law School School Soon

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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.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Around Being Bob Carter First First Time Head Leaving Me Put Remember Screen Time Tip Toes Top Train Washington I Remember 1940S

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Change Enough Extent Legal Live Long Never Profession See Thought Would

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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.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Alabama Argue Arising Before Capital Case Chance Counsel Court Criminal Critical First Got Involved Right Stage Supreme Supreme Court Trial

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Afford American Blacks Community How Long Must Special Treatment

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Been Had His James Life Mississippi Risk Still University White Who Willing Would

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Acceptable Being Candidates College Columbia Considered Done Drafted Had Law Law School Men School Seats Suddenly Vacant Well Were Who Women

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

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Become Civil Civil Rights Had King Leader Media New Reckoning Rights

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: September 14th, 1921

Died: September 28th, 2005

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