Ability Quote by Barbara Bergmann

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college…

— Heather Mac Donald

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

— Cornel West

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

— Michael J. Knowles

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

— Derek Bok

In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions…

— Shelby Steele

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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 is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the…

— William J. Clinton

“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop to think…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do…

— Antonin Scalia

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance…

— Alan Keyes