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Affirmative Action Policy Today: Its Effectiveness As Examined In The United States Department Of Commerce, Louritha Green
Affirmative Action Policy Today: Its Effectiveness As Examined In The United States Department Of Commerce, Louritha Green
Political Science Undergraduate Honors Theses
But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, choose the leaders you please. you do not take a person who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "You are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe you have been completely fair. (Graham, 182).
These words of President Lyndon Baines Johnson epitomize the foundation on which affirmative action programs were …