Action Quote by Barack Obama

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most…

— Cornel West

I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine…

— Henry Louis Gates

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 be done…

— J. C. Watts

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

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool…

— Clint Smith

No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here, if it…

— Shelby Steele

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

— Cornel West

Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent…

— Barack Obama

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

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education,…

— William Julius Wilson

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

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him,…

— J. C. Watts