Quotes of: Affirmative-action Keyword

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to ...

Sonia Sotomayor

To sleep on our thoughts,    Is better than to lose sleep       over rash actions

Haiku to Live By: Life affirming messages, to hearten your day

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

Quentin Bryce

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

Susan Estrich

Be encouraged to Soulfully affirm all that is duty bound to unfold in your life.

The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations

No one can make you dwell on the past. Control your thoughts and actions! Make your own decisions! Just because someone keeps bringing up your past doesn’t mean you have to accept it --- you are not obligated to accommodate their recollections of y...

A Book of Pearlables: Affirmations for Promises and Provisions

May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.

The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations

May you enter into a new phase in your life. One that affirms your life's purpose.

The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations

Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled.

The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Jayson Blair

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Henry Louis Gates

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Ruth J. Simmons

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Richard Lamm

Soulfully partake of life, not how you envisage – but, in a manner that was ordained.

The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations

These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul.

The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations

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

Maynard Jackson

Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.

John Ridley

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

Jack Kemp

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

I'm always excited when I make it on anyone's list - even if it's for affirmative action. My attitude is, 'Am I the token woman on this list? Because I'll take it.'

Julie Klausner

Without action to back them, your affirmations become the soundtrack of your personal imprisonment; the creed of your stagnancy.

Steve Maraboli