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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
"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."
"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."
"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."
"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."
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