Academic Quote by Ron Suskind

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

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

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

[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

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education,…

— William Julius Wilson

“Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend the most…

— William Voegeli

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him,…

— J. C. Watts

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without…

— Tammy Bruce

While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research…

— Clint Smith

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