Action Quote by Jon Stewart

I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.

— Peter Brimelow

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing…

— Richard Rodriguez

[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability,…

— Barbara Bergmann

“You never stop to think how the history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action. You never stop to think…

— Michael Eric Dyson

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

— Derek Bok

“Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the…

— Frank Rich

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education,…

— William Julius Wilson

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 something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

— Cornel West