Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.

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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

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The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.

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One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

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The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

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You can't win what you don't fight for.

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Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

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Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

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There is no reason to repeat bad history.

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If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

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The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

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It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

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Men without jobs do not form families.

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Airline passengers must have protections against such abusive treatment.

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This could be the last snowstorm the D.C. area gets this winter, children sledding on the grounds pose no security threat.

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Have a heart, this could be the last snowstorm the D.C. area gets this winter, and may be one of the best for sledding in years. Children and their parents should able to enjoy sledding on one of the best hills in the city.

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This could be the last snowstorm the D.C. area gets this winter, and may be one of the best for sledding in years, children and their parents should able to enjoy sledding on one of the best hills in the city. This is a one-time waiver that will allow Washington kids to sled while we await a more formal review of the ban, which will likely come after the last snow has fallen in our region.

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The District of Columbia government and its residents should never be put in the position of uncertainty of any kind about any of their local laws.

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