早期平权背后的理由是：经过长期系统性的不公正，仅仅依靠将种族和性别歧视非法化还并不足以保证所有人的机会平等。
The rational for affirmative action in those early years was the fact that, after a long history of systemic injustice, merely outlawing discrimination based on race or gender would not ensure equal opportunity for all.