Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

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

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

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

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