 By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. |
| We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. |
| When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. |
| I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. |
| The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. |
| We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954. |
| I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. |
| I soon found law school an unmitigated bore. |
| In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. |
| Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. |
| The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. |
| Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. |
| 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. |
| The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished. |
| Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. |
| How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? |
| Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. |
| My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. |
| 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. |
