Affirmative Action Quotes
Collection of top 38 famous quotes about Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Quotes & Sayings
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Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.
— Andy Borowitz
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
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
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
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
— Joe Lieberman
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
— Harold Washington
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
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 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
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
I am confident of God's faithfulness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.
— Richard Lamm
I am an affirmative action hire.
— Anna Quindlen
