"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."
-Constance Baker Motley
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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.“
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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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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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"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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