Affirmative Action Quotes

86 quotes by 57 authors

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act… — Dick Gephardt
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history. — Michael Kimmel
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action --… — Jesse Jackson
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action. — Joe Lieberman
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the… — Harold Washington
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. — Harold Washington
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work. — Harold Washington
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? — Maynard Jackson
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong. — Alan Dershowitz
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. — David Duke
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. — John Kasich
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. — Joe Klein
I am an affirmative action hire. — Anna Quindlen
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that… — Russell Simmons
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… — Sonia Sotomayor
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. — Sonia Sotomayor
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.… — Sonia Sotomayor
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… — Sonia Sotomayor
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance… — Sonia Sotomayor

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