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• Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
• Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the…
• Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all…
• How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right…
• I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was…
• In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
• When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

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