Affirmative Quotes

129 quotes by 101 authors

All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray.… — Ron Paul
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise… — Thomas Sowell
At some schools black applicants are more than 100 times more likely to be admitted than whites with the same GPAs and SATs. — Robert E. Lerner
The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20… — Lino Graglia
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors… — Alan Keyes
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock… — Alan Keyes
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And… — Ronald Reagan
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they… — Guillaume Faye
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken… — Tracy Morgan
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end… — Ron Paul
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started. — Sonia Sotomayor
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. — Kurt Goldstein
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 demonstrable… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times… — Peter Kirsanow
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own… — Corliss Lamont
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own… — Bill Moyers
Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey… — Dennis Stock
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be… — Saul Alinsky

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