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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."
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"Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again."
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"I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back."
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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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"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
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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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"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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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
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