Quotes By Constance Baker Motley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

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

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