Affirmative Action Quotes

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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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest — Clarence Thomas
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
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

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