Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into… — John Kasich 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
You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure… — Barack Obama 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
What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly,… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever,… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history. — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between. — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is… — Kurt Goldstein Copy Share Image
We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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