Affirmative Quotes

I am an affirmative action hire.

— Anna Quindlen

“Ponder the affirmative.”

— Loretta Boyer McClellan

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

— Boyle Roche

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

— Cornel West

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

— Kurt Goldstein

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

— Rajneesh

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

— Clarence Thomas

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

— Andrew Young

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need…

— Jill Stein

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

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

— Mark Victor Hansen

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

For those few of you who never heard of 'The Secret,' it's a worldwide best selling book touting the benefits of positive…

— Jenna Morasca

No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever,…

— Matthew McConaughey

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization…

— Steve Young

Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your…

— Rajneesh

I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly,…

— William Goldman

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in…

— Kerry Washington

We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a…

— Bill Moyers

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Eric Liu

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

Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond…

— Felix Frankfurter

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

Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites…

— Shelby Steele

This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in…

— Alexander Hamilton

The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under…

— Potter Stewart

An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one.

— Rhonda Byrne

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

— Harold Washington

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

— Quentin Bryce

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

— Joe Klein