In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

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

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

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.