#d

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#argue #arising #before #capital #case

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

#day #every #every day #go #grew

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

— Constance Baker Motley

#enough #extent #i #legal #live

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

— Constance Baker Motley

#i #life #notion #race #rejected

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#indeed #terrible #unbridled #woman

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. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#being #bob #carter #first #first time

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. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#believed #difficult #discovered #high #high school

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#bench #did #federal #get #i

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

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil disobedience #claims #consciously #disobedience

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared