My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. - Constance Baker Motley - Quotesmemo.com

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Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

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Constance Baker Motley

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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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.

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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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