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

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

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

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

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

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

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