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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.


Constance Baker Motley

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CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that in...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY People think black is one color and it's not. There are blue-blacks, brown-blacks, metallic blacks, ...
BONNIE YOUNG Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinki...
BENJAMIN WATSON What we have here is a system of separate colleges, and separate in this case is inherently unequal.
MICHAEL BEALS You can't hire blacks if there's not a pool of black recruits to choose from.
HEATHER DANENHOWER The colleges are so close to each other, and the alumni all work with each other so closely. So if o...
BILLY PACKER The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
FRANK HERBERT The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO For some kids who never even dreamed of going to college, they come to see the games and black footb...
EARL WILSON Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or...
RANDALL KENNEDY I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks...
CLARENCE THOMAS I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a ...
BESSIE COLEMAN What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and...
FRANK HERBERT As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.
TERESA R. FUNKE, BURSTS OF BRILLIANCE FOR A CREATIVE LIFE BLOG Not even an advancing All Blacks haka could have dragged him away from the swing of her ass
AMY ANDREWS Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow...
DAVID WILMOT One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes t...
MO UDALL One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes t...
MORRIS K. UDALL Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artist...
BARRY WHITE Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and i...
WENDY KOPP Our alumni team consists of injured alumni, pregnant alumni, and out of shape alumni- which is most ...
BROOKE POLLARD He changed the way Hollywood looked at black cinematography. He really showed Hollywood that the bla...
JAWN MURRAY It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges ...
PAULA WHITE The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property t...
DARRYL PINCKNEY I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!
NATALIA KILLS Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enac...
NIGER INNIS “Lighthouse Towers truly can also render a peaceful sight, being seen from miles away in darkness ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow&#...
JILL SCOTT The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community tha...
ALPHONSO JACKSON A lot of this is sort of a unification of all these (separate) efforts into a base platform that mee...
DAVE ROSENBERG My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return t...
GARY BECKER What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is u...
KRISHNAMURTI If black and white are too different and separate calories zebras wouldn't have both.
MOHAMED NUR HASHI Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - a...
TAMMY BRUCE My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.
CONSTANCE MARIE If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS Antiblack violencein Chicago was common since at least the 189-s, when blacks were brought in as str...
CAMERON MCWHIRTER Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during ...
GLYNN TURMAN One of the reasons for Princeton's lower rank could be that it is a smaller school. Plus, it raises ...
ANN KAPLAN Poor Kate,” said Constance, “she’s lost her marbles.
TRENTON LEE STEWART Right now, we're just trying to rally support from students and fans and alumni.
DEVON GOUDGE In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
DAVID DINKINS I've got a second team that could play and start at other colleges.
DOMINIC SCICLUNA That certainly does not parallel previous estimates. It may be that communities where blacks live te...
DAVID FINKELHOR "Oh if I were an angel and could see beyond the years. Reuniting with my loved ones wiping away each...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in gr...
DARRYL PINCKNEY Then on the other hand, we also have this breakaway faction of young officers, all slightly separate...
GUY HEDGECOE We're trying to rally all the support we can get from students and alumni.
DEVON GOUDGE When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not...
DARIUS RUCKER It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL The SA needs to understand its role, which is to support the colleges and to support student governm...
EVAN ROSS Then I start to struggle
With a feeble song
Which will overcome me
Many miles from ho...
LEONARD COHEN Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusua...
CATHERINE MARTIN I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
MAYA ANGELOU We are seriously considering a broader review of other state colleges and community colleges to see ...
GLENN BRIERE There's no question I'm going to have to come in and separate myself from the other players, somehow...
JAMES HARDY I am honored to be here today at Princeton. From George Kennan and John Foster Dulles, to George Shu...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL “When tragedy strikes we put away our differences, with faith banding us together for the greater ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN He's had a passionless life. He meets a woman and she's from Humboldt and she sort of sweeps him awa...
JASON WEISS Josh is just a great athlete. He has a couple of colleges looking at him. Both Dan and Pat are both ...
JAY BLAYLOCK As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in Americ...
DAVID HOROWITZ Learning to cook in the 1990s, I thought 'proper olives' meant black. The benchmark was Kala...
BEE WILSON Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions t...
LYDIA VORSTEVELD The potential from what we've seen with the community colleges is that (the marketplace) deserves (f...
CHRIS KLEIN In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around...
ROGER WILKINS Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely ...
DINESH D'SOUZA The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pri...
AGONA APELL Separate yourself from the gloom and doom seers. You won't do well with them
SOTONYE ANGA "Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts." ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The most important thing I will be doing this year, other than the listening tour, is to begin strat...
JOEL SELIGMAN Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching t...
RIC KELLER The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.
NIKKI SIXX Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, ...
JACKIE ROBINSON Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the c...
AUGUST WILSON There was a contagion of ordinances. Many small towns expelled the black population or decreed a pol...
JAMES LOEWEN A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appe...
DENNIS MILLER We've gotten great support from both Wallowa and Baker counties.
BUCK POTTER At Boca Raton, when I got down there, they didn't segregate us - until they saw some other blacks - ...
JAMES WILLIAMS The (Colombian) government's ambitious eradication campaign, to date, has met with heavy resistance ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT We forced the game even though we were playing away from Alumni Field. Our team was still looking to...
BOBBY CLARK Sin may separate us from God but sin may not separate God from us.
CREZ "Angel’s messages are filled with love, Sent to us from a Loving God above." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN

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ANITA BAKER Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who f...
ELNA BAKER Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul...
RUSSELL BAKER Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back...
RUSSELL BAKER Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, o...
NICHOLSON BAKER Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider...
NICHOLSON BAKER You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A presi...
JAMES BAKER In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
RUSSELL BAKER Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work...
RUSSELL BAKER The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded obser...
NICHOLSON BAKER Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in ...
RUSSELL BAKER In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
NICHOLSON BAKER Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr...
RUSSELL BAKER It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevit...
RUSSELL BAKER So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the offi...
RUSSELL BAKER He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
KENNETH BAKER The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
RUSSELL BAKER To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
RICHARD BAKER