Action Quote by Susan Estrich

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

— Coretta Scott King

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

— Joe Klein

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

— Joseph Mercado

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

It scares me to death if Affirmative Action goes away.

— Judith Love Cohen

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

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

“The prevailing discriminatory practices during the sixties, whose targets were working people, women, and people of color, were atrocious. Thus, an enforceable race-based --…

— Cornel West

“If there were social democratic redistributive measures that wiped out black poverty, and if racial and sexual discrimination could be abated through the good…

— Cornel West

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

In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town…

— Bill Moyers

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

— Paul Mooney