I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action. — Joseph Mercado 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 ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich 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
You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz 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
I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and… — Harry J. Holzer Copy Share Image
You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
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
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