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» Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

» When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

» When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

» We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

» We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

» We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

» Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

» Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

» There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

» There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

» The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

» The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

» The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

» The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

» The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

» The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

» The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

» Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

» New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

» My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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

» Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

» Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

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

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

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

» In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

» 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.

» I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

» I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

» 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.

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

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

» I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

» 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.

» How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

» Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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

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

» By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

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

» Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

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