Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
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We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.Constance Baker Motley
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
Constance Baker Motley
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.
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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.
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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
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