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

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

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

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.