Action Quote by Jim Webb

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

Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has…

— Shelby Steele

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 antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

— Andrew Young

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

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

“If there were social democratic redistributive measures that wiped out black poverty, and if racial and sexual discrimination could be abated through the good…

— Cornel West

In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions…

— Shelby Steele

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

— Cornel West

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