Action Quote by 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

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 was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to…

— Florence King

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

— Jim Webb

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

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

— Chaka Fattah

[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

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

— Cornel West

The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the…

— William J. Clinton

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies…

— John F. Kerry

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so…

— Gloria Steinem

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