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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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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
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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 Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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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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How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
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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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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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