Action Quote by Harry J. Holzer

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

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

Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent…

— Barack Obama

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

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And…

— Shelby Steele

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting…

— Barack Obama

Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it…

— Clint Smith

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable race-based --…

— Cornel West

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

— Cornel West