Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
For those few of you who never heard of 'The Secret,' it's a worldwide best selling book touting the benefits of positive… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of. — Mark Victor Hansen 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
No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether… — William Huggins 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
There's a gap in perceptions between women and men. Women feel much freer than they did, but still, when alcohol is involved,… — Martha C. Nussbaum 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
Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats… — Tom Lantos 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
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people.… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that… — Alan Dershowitz 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
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it… — Peggy McIntosh 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
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween. — Johnny Mercer 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
