“Liberalism is the ideology at the center of conservative arguments against affirmative action and equal opportunity. By proposing that, all things being… — Isabel Molina-Guzman Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“My question to readers accusing us of political correctness is: Why do you care so much about the attackers’ race? If you… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“If we analyze white supremacy from the philosophical lens of Star Wars, then it is all the Sith Lords, the Empire, and… — Wajahat Ali Copy Share Image
“Victimspeak is the trigger that permits the unleashing of an emotional and self-righteous response to any perceived slight. Charges of racism and… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
“Those on the far right I came to know felt two things. First, they felt the deep story was true. Second, they… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? — Maynard Jackson Copy Share Image
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“After 1970, however, many American institutions—corporations, unions, universities, others—were required to set aside what in effect were quotas, a process that engaged… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“The first rule of tinkering is, of course, ‘save all the parts.’ But in dismantling the social fabric, the parts cannot all… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what we hear, the great American divide is not a clash between conservatives who advocate liberty versus progressives who oppose… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people.… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If we go the route that California went when they abolished affirmative action, what chance do we have competing against China? This… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
![“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?” quote by Eric Holder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/233/eric-holder-7429_action_i-can-t-actually-imagine-a-time-in-which_2551642.jpg)
