Affirmative Quotes
129 quotes by 101 authors
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
— John Burroughs
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,…
— Rajneesh
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Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.
— Rajneesh
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Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any…
— Potter Stewart
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The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not…
— Shelby Steele
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...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing…
— Orlando Patterson
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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that…
— Harry J. Holzer
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Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing…
— Shelby Steele
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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 of…
— Barack Obama
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We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren't getting more…
— Barack Obama
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Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent…
— Helen Zille
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You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me…
— Barack Obama
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
— Clarence Thomas
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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts,…
— Tammy Bruce
Who Wrote These Affirmative Quotes
101 authors contributed a total of 129 Affirmative Quotes, led by these top contributors: