Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action. — Joseph Mercado Copy Share Image
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. — Susan Estrich 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
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of… — Charles Darwin 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
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
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
There's a gap in perceptions between women and men. Women feel much freer than they did, but still, when alcohol is involved,… — Martha C. Nussbaum 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'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — Marilynne Robinson 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
Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal… — Judith Butler 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 purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. — Sonia Sotomayor 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
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 Copy Share Image
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm 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
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich 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
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