Affirmative action Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

— Sonia Sotomayor

“A character whose name is a joke cannot be taken seriously. (Page 188)”

— M.B.B. Biskupski

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south…

— Sonia Sotomayor

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

— Sonia Sotomayor

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was…

— Sonia Sotomayor

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

— Sonia Sotomayor

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply…

— Sonia Sotomayor

One thing has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights; global warming…

— Jack Cashill

Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it…

— Clint Smith