Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1779
AUTHOR:
Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
QUOTATION:
Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.
ATTRIBUTION:
Dissenting opinion in 6-3 ruling that employers may sometimes favor women and members of minorities over better-qualified men and whites in hiring and promoting in order to achieve better balance in their work forces, 25 Mar 87
