Affirmative Action Quotes

86 quotes by 57 authors

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
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
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… — Unknown Author
Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil… — Alan Keyes
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. — Susan Estrich
Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students,… — Ron Suskind
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 middle-class… — Camille Paglia
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my… — Peggy McIntosh
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms. — Garry Kasparov
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been… — Clarence Thomas
Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because… — Jon Stewart
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which… — Dick Gephardt
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are… — Ruth Simmons
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within… — Henry Louis Gates

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