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Affirmative Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
- When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
- With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were…
- You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
- I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx.…
- I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its…
- There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance…
- One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the…
More Affirmative Quotes
- It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. — John Burroughs
- White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother… — Rajneesh
- Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative. — Rajneesh
- Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in… — Alexander Hamilton
- The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under… — Potter Stewart
- The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not… — Sandra Day O'Connor
- Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele
- ...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,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And… — Unknown Author
- We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved… — Sandra Day O'Connor
- And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and… — Unknown Author