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Sexism, like racism, goes with...

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

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I was born and raised in the o...

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

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Affirmitive action is extremel...

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

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All Southern state colleges an...

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

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By 1962, King had become, by t...

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

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Columbia Law School men were b...

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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Had it not been for James Mere...

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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How long must the American com...

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

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I got the chance to argue my f...

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.

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I never thought I would live l...

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

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I remember being infuriated fr...

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

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In my view, I did not get to t...

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

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When I was 15, I decided I wan...

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

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The fact is that racism, despi...

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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We African Americans have now ...

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

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The last state to admit a blac...

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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When I went to law school, nob...

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

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King thought he understood the...

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

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When Thurgood Marshall became ...

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

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I soon found law school an unm...

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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