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.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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

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

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

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

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