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

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

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.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.