“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
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action. — Joseph Mercado 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
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Defending legacy admissions is a mistake, not just because it is inconsistent with opposition to affirmative action but also because legacy admissions… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“Issues that agitate American politics—who is an American citizen and what rights come along with citizenship, the relative powers of the national… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
“If the white majority is racist how can a government it dominates be counted on to redress racial grievances? The question is… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It can be argued that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Clarence Thomas are Ivy League graduates because of affirmative action admittance… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring… — Ron Suskind 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
“amount to a fart in a cyclone. His parents and their parson had tried to sell him the same message, binding him… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“You’ve been handed a history where you got most of the land, made most of the money, got most of the presumptions… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The dilemma facing Bush and the Republicans was clear. If Marshall left, they could not leave the Supreme Court an all-white institution;… — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction as an educational strategy Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“As those Georgetown scholars say in their 2013 “Separate and Unequal” report, between 1995 and 2009, new freshmen enrollments grew by 197… — Goldie Blumenstyk Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results. — Clint Smith 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
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
