Nomination of John Agresto: Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Nomination of John Agresto to be Archivist of the United States, August 13 and September 9, 10, 1986

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Page 346 - Nothing contained in this title shall be interpreted to require any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee subject to this title to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any group because of the race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Page 272 - Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Page 156 - As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence.
Page 347 - The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.
Page 348 - We have never approved a classification that aids persons perceived as members of relatively victimized groups at the expense of other innocent individuals in the absence of judicial, legislative, or administrative findings of constitutional or statutory violations.
Page 450 - The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: To the Vice President: The Vice President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr.
Page 347 - It should be noted, to begin with, that all legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect. That is not to say that all such restrictions are unconstitutional. It is to say that courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny.

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