"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats."

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Constance Baker Motley

#School Quotes #College Quotes #Men Quotes

“The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.”
“In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.”
“Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.”
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
“However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do soâ€”we help them on their way.”
“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”
“The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.304, Oxford University Press on Demand
“There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.”

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