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Affirmative Action Quotes by Harold Washington
- 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…
- Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
- The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
More Affirmative Action Quotes
- 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
- Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and… — 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… — Barack Obama
- We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged… — Barack Obama
- Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that… — Helen Zille
- You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line… — Lyndon B. Johnson