Affirmative Quotes · Page 8

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

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

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

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever,…

— Matthew McConaughey

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

— Susan Estrich

Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own…

— Saul Alinsky

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

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

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

— Quentin Bryce

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and…

— Shelby Steele

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

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

The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time…

— Lino Graglia

I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the…

— Jacques Derrida

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

Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous…

— Richard Rodriguez

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

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

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

— Ben Lerner

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

If you represent all the people you should be able listen to someone who's pro-abortion are anti-abortion. Even though you might have…

— David Duke

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what…

— David Simon

What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate…

— Don Feder

I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while…

— Derek Bok

Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is…

— Ernest Holmes