Action Quote by Clarence Thomas

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 is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies…

— John F. Kerry

Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.

— Maya Wiley

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

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

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

— Chaka Fattah

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

— Cornel West

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like…

— Jonathan Coleman

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

— Sonia Sotomayor

In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.

— Shelby Steele

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance…

— Alan Keyes