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.

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

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

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

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

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.

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