When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

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

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.