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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

The negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative — Thomas Hardy

What we need to do is to eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. In doing this, we gradually acquire the habit of affirmative thinking. — Ernest Holmes

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

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

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

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

W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich. — Chris Hedges

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

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest — Clarence Thomas

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

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative. — Rajneesh

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

An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one. — Rhonda Byrne

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush

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

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

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

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

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

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. — Quentin Bryce

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

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego. — Bill Maher

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

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner

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

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

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. — Gloria Steinem

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. — Derek Bok

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