Action Quote by Eric Holder

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies…

— John F. Kerry

If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative…

— William Julius Wilson

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

— Tim Wise

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about…

— Orlando Patterson

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

— Clint Smith

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 ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense…

— Richard Rodriguez

We decided a number of years ago we could do a better job at diversity. It was going to be one of the growth…

— Brian France

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