Affirmative action Quotes

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

— Harold Washington

I am an affirmative action hire.

— Anna Quindlen

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

— Joe Klein

“I have only dwelt in my thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

— Cornel West

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

— Susan Estrich

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

— Coretta Scott King

I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

— Joe Lieberman

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

— Gloria Steinem

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

— Clarence Thomas

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

— Sonia Sotomayor

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to…

— Richard Rodriguez

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-…

— Jesse Jackson

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

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the…

— Eric Liu

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

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and…

— Sonia Sotomayor

No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here,…

— Shelby Steele

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though…

— Earl Warren

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“If the white majority is racist how can a government it dominates be counted on to redress racial grievances? The question is…

— David Horowitz

Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in…

— Ilana Mercer

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and…

— Shelby Steele

“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

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

You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“amount to a fart in a cyclone. His parents and their parson had tried to sell him the same message, binding him…

— Don Pendleton

“You’ve been handed a history where you got most of the land, made most of the money, got most of the presumptions…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“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

“The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and…

— Michelle Alexander

“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

“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of…

— Kurt Andersen

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

— Anonymous

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background,…

— William Julius Wilson

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

— Jayson Blair

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

— Richard Lamm

Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history.

— Bruce Hicks