I personally don’t need some arrogant, left-leaning, holier-than-thou …

I personally don’t need some arrogant, left-leaning, holier-than-thou individual using the force of the government to dictate how I should act. If I see someone who I believe needs and deserves my help and I have the ability to provide that help, I will do so. It is all about a single word: freedom. Those such as the letter writer have no problem forcing their will upon other members of society. I, on the other hand, wish only to leave others to their own decisions and have them leave me to mine Bob Cogliano
Investor’s Business Daily, June 10, 2003

[T]hese things [tolerance, diversity] can be accomplished without government-mandated racial preference, or any forced governmental meddling in the affairs of a private institution. The fact is that affirmative action is no different from the black codes, Jim Crow laws, and Fugitive Slaves Acts – all in the past. It differs only in who is given preference. Don’t ever forget that racial preference by laws was and still is racism. Richard Boddie
Bucknell University, class of 1961, self-described ‘black man’, Bucknell World, May 2003

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