Action Quote by Gloria Steinem

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

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

— Michael Kimmel

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 history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Chaka Fattah

No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here, if it…

— Shelby Steele

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

— Sonia Sotomayor

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it…

— Michael Kimmel

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 was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our…

— Tracy Morgan

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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