Action Quote by Spike Lee

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

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

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

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

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

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

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

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

— Cornel West

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine…

— Henry Louis Gates

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