Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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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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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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In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
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The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
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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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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
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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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