All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.
I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.
I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.
We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
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