Committees Quote by Michael J. Knowles

[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

Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions…

— Auren Hoffman

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college…

— Heather Mac Donald

“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

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against anyone. We teach people to reach their highest potential.…

— Rosa Parks

“80 percent of people chose to award a scholarship to a member of their favored political party, even when another applicant had better grades.…

— Kevin Simler

“Also mostly lost in the turmoil over whether minority admissions violate traditional standards of merit is the impressive evidence that grades and test scores…

— Derrick Bell

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

— Bill Gates

At some schools black applicants are more than 100 times more likely to be admitted than whites with the same GPAs and SATs.

— Robert E. Lerner

“From 1979 to 1988, it concluded, Harvard admitted only 13.2 percent of Asian Americans, compared with 17.4 percent of whites. Applicants from California and…

— Daniel Golden

Defending legacy admissions is a mistake, not just because it is inconsistent with opposition to affirmative action but also because legacy admissions are indefensible.

— Norah Vincent

Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance…

— Alan Keyes