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and believed that I was on the side of the angels
document I became an active advocate for an aggressive affirmative action program at Harvard based on non-racial criteria. I participated in numerous campus and faculty meeting debates House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

and believed that I was on the side of the angels

The Bakke Decision Was Thus A Triumph Of Ambiguity And Discretion Over Clarity And Candor. Powell Condemned Davis Medical School For Reserving A Discrete Number Of Places In Each Class For Disadvantaged Members Of Specified Minority Groups
document The Bakke decision was thus a triumph of ambiguity and discretion over clarity and candor. Powell condemned Davis Medical School for reserving a discrete number of places in each class for disadvantaged members of specified minority groups House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

but he applauded Harvard College for employing a process that eschews “target-quotas for the number of blacks” but allows “the race of an applicant [to] tip the balance in his favor just as geographic origin or a life spent on a farm tip the balance in other candidates’ cases.”

These Were Precisely The Sort Of Theological Questions We Were Not Supposed To Be Thinking About. We Were Supposed To Do And Not Do—Go To Shul
document These were precisely the sort of theological questions we were not supposed to be thinking about. We were supposed to do and not do—go to shul House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

don’t eat shrimp—and to ask our Rabbi what to think about such esoteric issues. They know the religiously correct answer. Yet the addition of the two words to the pledge forced me not only to think about them but to try to place them in the context of my own role as a young Ort...

we believed that this was a land of opportunity and that we could do anything
document Yet we saw bigotry all around us. We knew that no Jew had ever been elected president. No Jew had ever been the head of a major corporation or university. We knew that there were quotas limiting the number of Jews at most Ivy League colleges. Still House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

we believed that this was a land of opportunity and that we could do anything