Attorney Quote by Herb Kohl

I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and…

— Michelle Alexander

Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.

— Maya Wiley

I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

— Gretchen Whitmer

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

Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's…

— Mark Takano

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the…

— Jill Stein

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a…

— Jonathan Kozol

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing…

— Amelia Bloomer

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

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

Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States.

— Ritchie Torres