"We don't discriminate on the basis of race.
"We never discriminated on the basis of race," he said.
But classifications "made on the basis of race" are.
Preferences on the basis of race and ethnicity do.
There is discrimination on the basis of race and sexuality.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Chief Justice Roberts wrote.
Chief justice John Roberts wrote: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race".
"If you discriminate in favor of one group on the basis of race," he added, "you thereby discriminate against another group on the basis of race".
In Roberts' evocative phrase, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race".
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race," he famously declared, "is to stop discriminating on the basis of race".
As chief justice, Mr. Roberts has famously written that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race".
