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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
J. C. Watts
Needs
You
Black
Gender
White
Skin
Community
Action
Think
Kid
Color
Scholarship
Badly
Because
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Done
Just
Poor
Should
Skin Color
Based
Believes
Need
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
Survival
Strong
Compassion
Guilt
Action
Out
Weakest
Mutual
Only
Football
League
Like
Understand
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Done
Little
Choices
Team
Professional
Professional Football
Awards
Draft
To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.
Clint Smith
Action
Society
Tool
Adequate
Response
Systemic
Has-Been
Some
More
Clear
Towards
Looting
Equitable
Been
Affirmative
Itself
Affirmative Action
Semblance
Decades
Us
When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well.
Gwen Ifill
School
Political
Political Power
Power
Action
Brought
About
Laws
Fair
Well
Housing
Shifts
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Landmark
Population
Challenged
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 succeed at those institutions.
Sonia Sotomayor
Princeton
Action
Baby
Those
Colleagues
Bronx
Able
Born
Perfect
Institutions
Yale
Am
Test
Test Scores
Were
South
Off
Scores
South Bronx
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Rican
Succeed
Far
Product
Comparable
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Raised
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
Adam Cohen
Gay
Justice
Before
Action
Liberal
Corporate
Spending
He
Court
Reagan
Issues
Repeatedly
Campaign
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Shown
Kennedy
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
Mind
Action
Changed
Critical
Wrong
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Acknowledged
Publicly
Early
Career
In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'
Allen West
Home
You
First
Nation
Action
Every
President
Sign
Obama
Find
Gimmick
Rush
Case
Fact
Highest
Fell
Said
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Office
America
Candidate
African-American
Warning
Stand
Jews have been harmed by the threats to freedom of opinion and debate, the punishments for candor, and the decline in rigorous standards in the academy that have accompanied progressive hegemony, which insists upon the sacrosanct status of affirmative action and other policies favored by the left.
Amy Wax
Freedom
Debate
Action
Other
Jews
Progressive
Favored
Punishments
Rigorous
Status
Threats
Insists
Academy
Policies
Opinion
Accompanied
Been
Left
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Candor
Which
Decline
Hegemony
Standards
Harmed
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
Andrew Young
Decision
Action
Every
Society
Making
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Effort
Decision-Making
Aspect
Include
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Andrew Young
Democracy
You
Army
First
Important
National
Action
Military
Kind
Security
Some
Properly
Economic
Had
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
National Security
Realize
Working
Competitiveness
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects our commitment to equal opportunity while fully respecting the academic standards of the University.
Derek Bok
Commitment
Strong
Opportunity
Action
Believe
Our
Respecting
Harvard
Must
Academic
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Reflects
While
Standards
Fully
Program
University
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
Dick Gephardt
Birthday
Law
School
King
Action
Law School
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Federal
Attended
Sponsors
Court
Making
Friend
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Michigan
Which
Holiday
Original
Brief
Keep
Luther
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Class
Black
Important
Creation
Action
Tool
States
Statistical
Has-Been
Had
Instituted
Most
Been
Effect
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Discrimination
Middle
The Most Important
Middle Class
Central
Ingredient
Measures
United
Ever
United States
Technique
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.
Faye Wattleton
Women
Doors
Action
Think
Has-Been
Cast
Generally
Opening
Terms
Been
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Role
The Doors
Race
Themselves
Played
Cognizant
When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.
Gillian Armstrong
Me
Women
People
Made
Young
Action
Out
About
Talent
Because
Felt
Won
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Snobby
Wanted
Really
Should
Your
Awards
Film
Starting
Filmmaker
Filmmakers
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
People
Long
Action
Meet
About
More
More People
He
Inviting
Perhaps
Know
Opposed
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
McCain
Them
Lowering
Standards
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
Political
Action
Our
Resources
Muster
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Going
Place
Works
Keep
Need
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
Harold Washington
Work
Action
Fallacy
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Third
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
Success
Government
Justice
Action
Despite
Has-Been
About
Federal
Remarkable
Federal Government
Policies
Been
Accomplished
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Department
Justice Department
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
Genius
Liberty
Action
Individual
Individual Liberty
Wrong
Idea
Because
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
American
Based
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
Me
You
Women
People
Important
Nothing
Action
Think
Society
Embittered
Know
Because
End
Up
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Lack
Being
Which
Ethnic
I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.
Janet Reno
Important
Action
Think
Programs
Affirmative
Very
Affirmative Action
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 the Civil War and its aftermath.
Jim Webb
War
Journey
White
Action
Difficult
Those
Recognize
Civil
Civil War
Had
Terms
Also
Policy
Understandable
Came
Cultural
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Aftermath
Who
Even
Groups
Uniquely
Suffered
Designed
Socio-Economic
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
Joe Klein
Justice
Action
Cheap
Always
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Racial
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
Funny
People
Action
Slot
Find
Able
Seem
Color
Most
Always
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Bunch
Just
Against
Republicans
Fill
Needed
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