Affirmative Quotes
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I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative
— Jay Woodman
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.
— Andy Borowitz
No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want.
— Swami Vivekananda
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
— Jayson Blair
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
— Gloria Steinem
Embrace the possibility of a fulfilled dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
— Gloria Steinem
Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives
— George Lakoff
Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.
— Leonard Pitts Jr.
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.
— John McWhorter
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
— Peggy McIntosh
Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
one was present, interacting in any affirmative way with the people who filled those prisons.
— Piper Kerman
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.
— Ernest Holmes
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
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
— Jayson Blair
Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative
— Jay Woodman
What if two negatives make an affirmative ... does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
— Samuel Laman Blanchard
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
— Harold Washington
You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.
— Ann M. Martin
What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.
— E. M. Forster
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
— Sonia Sotomayor
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
— Joe Lieberman
I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'
— Boyle Roche
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
— Michael Kimmel
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
— Susan Estrich
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The affirmative of affirmatives ... is love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has been proven now scientifically that, an affirmative thought is hundreds of times more powerful than a negative thought.
— Michael Beckwith
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
— James G. Frazer
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
— Andrew Young
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
— Maynard Jackson
I am an affirmative action hire.
— Anna Quindlen
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
— Kurt Goldstein
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
— Richard Lamm
Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ponder the affirmative.
— Loretta Boyer McClellan
I am confident of God's faithfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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 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
Make a conscious effort to think, speak and act in affirmative manner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
one affirmative from God's mouth for thy pardoned state, carries more weight, though of old date, than a thousand negatives from Satan's. David's
— William Gurnall
Everything is possible. Anything is possible at any time and at any time in life. That's such an affirmative kind of feeling.
— Lillete Dubey
