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
It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought. — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
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
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted… — Corliss Lamont 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 was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people.… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they… — Peter Kirsanow Copy Share Image
Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Your actions are living affirmations of what you say you believe and feel. ‘Affirmative action’ is when your actions are in congruence… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and… — Shelby Steele 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
...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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it… — Bill Maher 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
You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure… — Barack Obama 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
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into… — John Kasich 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
You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween. — Johnny Mercer 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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