Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to… — Christopher Caldwell Copy Share Image
Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
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
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Indicate which principles you support regarding affirmative action and discrimination. 1. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs. 2. The federal… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team… — J. C. Watts 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
“Furthermore, when conservatives attack the left, they now usually frame their arguments in the language of equality—for example, they often argue that… — George Hawley Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Charting liberal hypocrisy is now old hat. From academia to the Sierra Club, elite progressives expect to live lives that are quite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
“The psychologist Jonathan Haidt says many people who don’t consciously believe in karma still believe deep down in some version of it,… — David McRaney 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
“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting,… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
To be sure Plato did not favor 'affirmative action' to fill political and military offices in his own society; nor did he… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small… — Bill Moyers 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
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights;… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit… — Camille Paglia 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
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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