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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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.Constance Baker Motley
Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.
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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
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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 fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
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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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