Action Quote by Christopher Caldwell

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most…

— Cornel West

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have…

— Clarence Thomas

Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it…

— Clint Smith

Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

— Clint Smith

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

— Joseph Mercado

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool…

— Clint Smith

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 is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

— Cornel West