Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
“South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority… — Christina Engela 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
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
If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its… — Shelby Steele 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
What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
It can be argued that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Clarence Thomas are Ivy League graduates because of affirmative action admittance… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or… — Russell Simmons 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
![“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?” quote by Eric Holder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/233/eric-holder-7429_action_i-can-t-actually-imagine-a-time-in-which_2551642.jpg)
