“ 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. ”
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“ We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ”
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“ By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ”
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“ Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. ”
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“ Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. ”
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“ Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. ”
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“ Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ”
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“ The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. ”
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“ Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. ”
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“ We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. ”
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“ In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. ”
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“ I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. ”
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“ Something that we think is impossible now will not be impossible in another decade. ”
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“ Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. ”
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“ Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ”
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“ The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ”
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“ The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. ”
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“ Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ”
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“ Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. ”
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“ I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. ”
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“ I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. ”
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