Action Quote by J. C. Watts

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 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

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

— Chaka Fattah

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

— Cornel West

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

— Andrew Young

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

“The Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action is incoherent, disingenuous, intellectually muddled and morally confused. Yet it is welcome.”

— Charles Krauthammer

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our…

— Alan Keyes

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

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the…

— William J. Clinton

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

In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.

— Shelby Steele