55 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

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

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

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.

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

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

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

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

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