These are the battles that lie ahead. We must fight them in our courts. We must fight them in our legislatures, in our city councils, on our school boards. We must fight them in our neighborhoods and in our corporations. We must fight to widen the circle of opportunity.
Every challenge is an opportunity.
And in so doing, we are given an opportunity to, at long last, redeem America' s soul. Affirmative Action has become the battleground. And let us make no mistake. This is a battle of biblical proportions, over right and wrong, over inclusion and exclusion, over closing the gap between the reality and the ideal of our nation's most fundamental principles. American political life has been overshadowed by equivocation and moral ambivalence.