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Affirmative action

noun

A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities.

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... the rights of the Nation; but always, or well-nigh always, their action was negative action against the interests of the people, ingeniously devised to limit their power against wrong, instead of affirmative action giving to the people power to right wrong. They had rendered these decisions sometimes as upholders of property rights against human rights, being especially zealous in securing the rights of the very men who were most competent to take care of themselves; and sometimes in the ...

— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

Words linked to "Affirmative action" : social action