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Affirmative Quotes

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 was always racial justice on the cheap.
Joe Klein

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

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

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

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

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

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No."
Boyle Roche

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

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

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

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse

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

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

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

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do.
Richard Masur