Action Quote by Coretta Scott King

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

— Susan Estrich

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

— Paul Mooney

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

— Chaka Fattah

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

— Joseph Mercado

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally…

— Stephen Colbert

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

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 an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

— Andrew Young

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

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

— Cornel West