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Affirmative Action Quotes by Quentin Bryce
- I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
- The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals…
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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… — 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