I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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

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

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

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

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

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