Quote by Derrick Bell

“It would be impossible to understand the persistence and vehemence of these arguments against test scores without understanding the political purpose they serve. Arguments…

— Thomas Sowell

Defending legacy admissions is a mistake, not just because it is inconsistent with opposition to affirmative action but also because legacy admissions are indefensible.

— Norah Vincent

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has been unnecessary…

— Howard Gardner

Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family…

— Angela Rayner

“Whenever judges of the highest state courts have actually examined the details of the "savage inequalities" that continue to be imposed on most low-income…

— Michael A. Rebell

Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.

— Michael J. Knowles

One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about — how well its graduates…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

— Derek Bok

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5…

— Peter Kirsanow