The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long… — M. Stanton Evans Copy Share Image
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Your actions are living affirmations of what you say you believe and feel. ‘Affirmative action’ is when your actions are in congruence… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they… — Peter Kirsanow Copy Share Image
Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action. — Joe Lieberman 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 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 was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. — Susan Estrich 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 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
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. — Paul Mooney 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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