Action Quote by Cornel West

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our…

— Alan Keyes

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

— Cornel West

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done…

— J. C. Watts

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

— Quentin Bryce

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 works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Chaka Fattah

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

— David Duke

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting…

— Barack Obama

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on…

— Randall Kennedy

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

— George W. Bush