#affirmative

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No." ↗

— Boyle Roche

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

— Susan Estrich

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I am an affirmative action hire. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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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

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

— Jack Kemp

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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

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

— Maynard Jackson

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Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. ↗

— Joe Klein

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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

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However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#civil-rights #racism #racism