Discrimination Quote by Sadiq Khan

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

— Kate Thompson

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing…

— Stuart Hall

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

— James Forman, Jr

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

— Shirley Chisholm

If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book…

— Hannah Simone

I have spent years representing victims of racial profiling and police brutality and investigating patterns of drug law enforcement in poor communities of color…

— Michelle Alexander

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were…

— Leah Ward Sears

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser…

— Hans Frank

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

— Gloria Allred

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

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination,…

— Nat Hentoff