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

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.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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

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

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