Action Quote by Shiva Ayyadurai

“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit a fair…

— Irin Carmon

“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied…

— Angelina Grimke

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

— Clarence Thomas

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our…

— Tracy Morgan

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here, if it…

— Shelby Steele

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our…

— Alan Keyes

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class…

— Michelle Alexander

Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

— Joseph Mercado