Academic Quote by Shelby Steele

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

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

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps…

— Harry J. Holzer

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most…

— Cornel West

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

— Cornel West

Affirmative action has provided affirmative opportunities for capable, competent, and qualified persons to succeed on their merits or fail on their demerits.

— Al N. Green

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives…

— Henry Louis Gates

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 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

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

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have…

— Clarence Thomas