I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

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

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.