More Than Just A Policy Born of the civil rights movement three decades ago, affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to reconcile its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, stated that "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: …showed first 75 words of 512 total…

…showed last 75 words of 512 total…and providing equal opportunity for a least some students. There is a lot to value in diversity, especially in higher education. I also believe that if we started focusing on the equality issue at early stage in a person's educational process we may not have such a huge problem because "if we could just get equality of opportunity right at the K-12 level, we wouldn't need affirmative action policies at all." (Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom)