Affirmative action Quotes · Page 7

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the…

— Michael Kimmel

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

— Coretta Scott King

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the…

— Harold Washington

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

— Andrew Young

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

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who…

— Thomas Sowell

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does…

— Alan Keyes

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

— Maynard Jackson

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

— Andy Borowitz

“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights…

— Michelle Alexander

The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what…

— Haile Gerima

The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and…

— Charles A. Murray

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for…

— Cornel West

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming…

— Ronald Reagan

If we go the route that California went when they abolished affirmative action, what chance do we have competing against China? This…

— Miguel Cardona

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

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

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as…

— Barbara Bergmann

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

“And yet, on balance, affirmative action has, I think, been a qualified success.” A 13-word sentence with five hedging words. I give…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

“A series of federal surveys of selective colleges found virtually no change from the 1990s to 2012 in enrollment of students who…

— Anonymous

“It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet…

— Harry A. Blackmun

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they…

— Peter Kirsanow

[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