Action Quote by Richard Rodriguez

Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense…

— Richard Rodriguez

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me -…

— Richard Rodriguez

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

— James A. Forbes

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

— Kevin Sessums

I think it is difficult to achieve a meaningful political coalition if you have race-based programs that divide members of the coalition. The problem…

— William Julius Wilson

I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale,…

— Mitch Leigh

“If non-white groups continue to advance race-based interests, is it wise for whites to continue to act as if they have none?”

— Jared Taylor

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to…

— Calvin Trillin

“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies were officially…

— Michelle Alexander

When I went to Yale, I thought it would be like in Stenford 24 hours a day. Robert Brustein, former dean of the Yale…

— Sigourney Weaver

The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…

— Cornel West

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who…

— Alan Keyes