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Those who believe that racial preferences can help to 'even the score' display, and reinforce, a manner of thinking about race that was the source of the injustice and that will, if it endures within our society, be the source of more injustice still.

— Antonin Scalia On affirmative action: Richmond v. Croson Co (1989)

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