Constance Baker Motley - Best Quotes

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

Constance Baker Motley

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

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Constance Baker Motley

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

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

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

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

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

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

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.

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