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
I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under… — Potter Stewart 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
Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. — Sonia Sotomayor 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
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first… — Andrew Young 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
“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
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
“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
“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
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
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
“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
Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And… — Orlando Patterson Copy Share Image
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
“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
“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