Action Quote by Bill Moyers

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

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

— Joe Klein

“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable race-based --…

— Cornel West

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

— Sonia Sotomayor