55 Quotes by Constance Baker Motley

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

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

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

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.