Are some of president lincoln’s ideas considered contradictory?

 The correct answer is :  President Lincoln did not believe he had the power to end slavery because it was evil, but he believed he could end it to preserve the Union. He worked with the radicals but also resisted them, he used them as he did with the conservatives. As chief magistrate he made a clear distinction between his personal beliefs and his official actions.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts