In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp 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
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
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and… — Sonia Sotomayor 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
“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
“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
Conservatives do not oppose affirmative action because they are crypto-racists. — Norah Vincent 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
“The Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action is incoherent, disingenuous, intellectually muddled and morally confused. Yet it is welcome.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary. — Cornel West 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
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
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
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
“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor… — Jesse Jackson 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
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
