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I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

— James Forman, Jr

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white…

— Nelson Mandela

In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American President of the United States. And that has to show that…

— Eric Holder

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

— George Wallace

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and…

— Jaime Harrison

As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.

— Sadiq Khan

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

— Ahmad Rashad

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

— Nat King Cole

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a…

— Gillian Jacobs