The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice

[But the ACLU argues that ending assistance to women and minorities will open the door to the discrimination that affirmative action was intended to remedy. In 1978,] The City of Los Angeles gave 2 percent of its contracts to minority and women business enterprises. Sacramento gave zero percent. Now those numbers are up to 10-15 percent, ... It (Proposition 209) is really resegregation in California.

As time passes, there is a greater acceptance of gay and lesbian rights and greater support of anti-discrimination policies. That's the key finding.

Judge Roberts declined to disavow disparaging opinions expressed against civil rights laws, voting rights act, wage discrimination against women and others,

Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in

Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . .