Action Quote by Orlando Patterson

If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative…

— William Julius Wilson

Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent…

— Barack Obama

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it…

— Clint Smith

“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

[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation…

— Eric Holder

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

— Maynard Jackson

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

— Cornel West

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

Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap…

— Barack Obama

I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal