Action Quote by Maynard Jackson

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

— Cornel West

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

— Joseph Mercado

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

— George W. Bush

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

— Quentin Bryce

“Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to "level the playing field." It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim…

— David Horowitz

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

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

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

Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

— Clint Smith