I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
Conservatives do not oppose affirmative action because they are crypto-racists. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary. — Cornel West 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
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Affirmative action has provided affirmative opportunities for capable, competent, and qualified persons to succeed on their merits or fail on their demerits. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action is incoherent, disingenuous, intellectually muddled and morally confused. Yet it is welcome.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed,… — Tanner Colby Copy Share Image
“I miss Cindy McCain - she seemed so life-like. I'm a moderate lesbian - I only hold a grudge for six generations.… — Kate Clinton 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
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
“If there were social democratic redistributive measures that wiped out black poverty, and if racial and sexual discrimination could be abated through… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were… — John Larew Copy Share Image
“How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background,… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me? — Jayson Blair 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
