Action Quote by Eleanor Holmes Norton

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 something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

— Cornel West

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Andrew Young

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the…

— William J. Clinton

“If there were social democratic redistributive measures that wiped out black poverty, and if racial and sexual discrimination could be abated through the good…

— Cornel West

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

— Jim Webb

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

Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has…

— Shelby Steele

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

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