If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence. — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. — Paul Mooney 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
Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Defending legacy admissions is a mistake, not just because it is inconsistent with opposition to affirmative action but also because legacy admissions… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty… — Ron Paul 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
I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and… — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said… — Allen West Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has… — Eleanor Holmes Norton 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
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This… — Robin DiAngelo 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
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
“The forces at work in healthy party politics are centripetal; they encourage factions and interests to come together to work out common… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
“Charting liberal hypocrisy is now old hat. From academia to the Sierra Club, elite progressives expect to live lives that are quite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and… — Florence King 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
I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered… — James Earl Jones 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
To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was… — Maggie Gyllenhaal 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
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“The Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action is incoherent, disingenuous, intellectually muddled and morally confused. Yet it is welcome.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
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