Action Quote by J. C. Watts

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

— Quentin Bryce

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

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

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me -…

— Richard Rodriguez

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

“Liberalism is the ideology at the center of conservative arguments against affirmative action and equal opportunity. By proposing that, all things being equal, everyone…

— Isabel Molina-Guzman

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

— George W. Bush

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

— Cornel West

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on…

— Randall Kennedy

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

— Ed Schultz

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

— L. Todd Rose