In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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

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

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

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.