Affirmative Action Quotes

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
Jon Stewart

Work, Here, Action

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts

Strong, Football, Done

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

School, Try, Rather

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
Henry Louis Gates

Success, Black, Lives

I am an affirmative action hire.
Anna Quindlen

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
Spike Lee

Nothing, Done, Black

My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
J. C. Watts

Everything, Young, Poor

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts

Done, Black, Poor

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
Alan Dershowitz

Mind, Career, Wrong

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp

Liberty, Wrong, American

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
Eric Liu

End, While, Action

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
James Earl Jones

Women, Society, End

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
Joe Klein

Justice, Action, Cheap

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
David Duke

Nice, College, Against

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
Tammy Bruce

Action, Culture, Quite

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

Society, Negative, Means

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

Action, Definition

I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
Peter Brimelow

Government, Same, Action

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Susan Estrich

Time, Action, Move

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
Harold Washington

Work, Action, Third

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
Harold Washington

Success, Government, Justice

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

Political, Place, Keep

Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
Jonathan Coleman

Feelings, Thoughts, Enough

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
Ruth J. Simmons

Women, Strong, Action

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
Maynard Jackson

Action, Playing, Plan

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