Constance Baker Motley

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.