Action Quote by Alan Dershowitz

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me -…

— Richard Rodriguez

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our…

— Alan Keyes

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights…

— Dick Gephardt

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white…

— Camille Paglia

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Clarence Thomas

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on…

— Randall Kennedy

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so…

— Gloria Steinem

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of…

— James Earl Jones

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

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

— Sonia Sotomayor