Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

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.

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

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

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