 Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. |
| The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. |
| There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us. |
| We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable. |
| Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. |
| I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. |
| All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. |
| 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. |
| The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. |
| The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. |
| Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. |
| Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. |
| There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. |
| King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. |
| My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. |
| When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. |
| The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
