Action Quote by Randall Kennedy

I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

— Joe Lieberman

I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights…

— Dick Gephardt

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

— Quentin Bryce

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done…

— J. C. Watts

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

— George W. Bush

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity…

— Russell Simmons

Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has…

— Shelby Steele

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

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white…

— Camille Paglia

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

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was…

— Alan Dershowitz