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

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

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

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.

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