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Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Constance Baker Motley

Read the preamble to the Constitution: it is simply unjust to ask the black community to bear all of the consequences of the transition from slavery and a segregated society to a nonsegregated society on the theory that the present-day white majority has lithe connection to its slaveholding and segregated past and that the sins of its fathers should not be visited upon it today.

Constance Baker Motley

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom—his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom

Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley

Born: September 14, 1921

Died: September 28, 2005 (aged 84)

Bio: Constance Baker Motley was an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City. She was the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary by Lyndon B. Johnson.

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