Action Quote by Eleanor Holmes Norton

Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…

— 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

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

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

— Andrew Young

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

— Joseph Mercado

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have…

— Clarence Thomas

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

— John Kasich

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

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

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