Action Quote by Haile Gerima

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

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair…

— Troy Deeney

Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they would like…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

The black community can be competitive and cautious when it comes to those we want put on display for the world to see and…

— Karamo Brown

“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system…

— Malcolm X

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called…

— Candace Owens

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this…

— Kenneth I. Chenault

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this…

— Richard M. Nixon

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

— Tavis Smiley

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen