Action Quote by Barack Obama

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

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have…

— Clarence Thomas

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

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies…

— John F. Kerry

Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

— Clint Smith

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

— Cornel West

Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

— Joseph Mercado

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and…

— Jesse Jackson

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we're still fighting against discrimination means we've gone backwards and that's…

— Kalidou Koulibaly