I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring. — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
At some schools black applicants are more than 100 times more likely to be admitted than whites with the same GPAs and SATs. — Robert E. Lerner Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence. — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? — Maynard Jackson Copy Share Image
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Affirmative action has provided affirmative opportunities for capable, competent, and qualified persons to succeed on their merits or fail on their demerits. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And yet, on balance, affirmative action has, I think, been a qualified success.” A 13-word sentence with five hedging words. I give… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image
You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were… — John Larew Copy Share Image
“My question to readers accusing us of political correctness is: Why do you care so much about the attackers’ race? If you… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
“The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“A series of federal surveys of selective colleges found virtually no change from the 1990s to 2012 in enrollment of students who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me? — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
