Color Quote by Karen DeCrow

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

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

— William O. Douglas

Ultimately, the Supreme Court should be about fairness, not favor; Constitution, not color.

— Brian Mast

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

— Joseph Sobran

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.

— Antonin Scalia

“The purpose of our Constitution—especially the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal-protection guarantee—is to protect minority rights even when, or especially when, they are unpopular.”

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Maya Wiley

“The Supreme Court has now closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the criminal justice process, from stops…

— Michelle Alexander

It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on…

— Heather Mac Donald

For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme…

— Malcolm Forbes

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

— James K. Polk