I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
I am an affirmative action hire.
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
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.
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.
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.
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.
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188
I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from th...
