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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

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

— Harold Washington

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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

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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

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In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

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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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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 has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. ↗

— John Kasich

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