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

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

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

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

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

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