Action Quote by Stephen Colbert

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

— John Kasich

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

Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Paul Mooney

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

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

— Emily Saliers

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

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

— Cornel West