55 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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

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

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

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

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.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

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