theamericanscholar: Affirmative Inaction by William M. Chace 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 that you have been completely fair. -Lyndon B. Johnson, in his 1965 commencement address at Howard University Above, Howard University’s 1965 graduates listen to President Johnson’s speech proposing affirmative action. (LBJ Library photo) View high resolution

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Affirmative Inaction by William M. Chace

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 that you have been completely fair.

-Lyndon B. Johnson, in his 1965 commencement address at Howard University

Above, Howard University’s 1965 graduates listen to President Johnson’s speech proposing affirmative action. (LBJ Library photo)

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