"We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."

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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. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

— Lyndon B. Johnson