What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body? — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one. — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda… — Jill Stein 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
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
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
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said… — Allen West Copy Share Image
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background,… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. — Kurt Goldstein Copy Share Image
Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative. — Rajneesh 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
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
![“[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.” quote by Barbara Bergmann](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/974/barbara-bergmann-64259_ability_on-affirmative-action-universities-give_2483440.jpg)
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