Affirmative Action Quotes
86 quotes by 57 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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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
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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
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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
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Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
— Susan Estrich
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Affirmative Action Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 86 Affirmative Action Quotes, led by these top contributors: