Affirmative Quotes · Page 7

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

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who…

— Thomas Sowell

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does…

— Alan Keyes

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

— Maynard Jackson

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

— Andy Borowitz

The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what…

— Haile Gerima

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

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary…

— Saul Alinsky

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for…

— Cornel West

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming…

— Ronald Reagan

“I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as…

— Barbara Bergmann

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

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need…

— Jill Stein

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they…

— Peter Kirsanow

We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in…

— Alexander Hamilton

[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue…

— Eric Holder

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras,…

— Dennis Stock