Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Conservatives do not oppose affirmative action because they are crypto-racists. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional. — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action. — Joseph Mercado Copy Share Image
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results. — Clint Smith 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
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
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who… — Jim Webb 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
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele 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
“I miss Cindy McCain - she seemed so life-like. I'm a moderate lesbian - I only hold a grudge for six generations.… — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
“Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed,… — Tanner Colby Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“How often does it occur that information provided you on morning radio or television, or in the morning newspaper, causes you to… — Neil Postman 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
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were… — John Larew 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
“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
“If there were social democratic redistributive measures that wiped out black poverty, and if racial and sexual discrimination could be abated through… — Cornel West 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
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III 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
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? — Maynard Jackson 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
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me? — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
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