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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
Attitude
Woman
Action
Take
Excited
Make
Because
Always
Am
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
List
Anyone
Token
Even
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
Maynard Jackson
You
Opportunity
Field
Action
Like
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Plan
Your
Level
Level Playing Field
Playing
Playing Field
Guarantee
When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system can be found at the prison gate.
Michelle Alexander
Political
Prison
Action
Society
Back
Our
System
See
Structure
Caste
Economic
Entrance
Colorblind
Take
New
Look
Without
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Familiar
Curtain
Social
Racial
Creates
Found
Gate
Pull
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
Paul Mooney
Too Much
Action
Too
Enough
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Want
Much
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
Government
Action
Think
Guess
Spending
OK
About
He
Dean
Howard Dean
Government Spending
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Same
Apart
Bush
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.
Randall Kennedy
Good
Balance
Champion
Action
Though
Support
Because
Conducive
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Sensibly
Public
Personally
Racial
Public Good
Designed
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.
Russell Simmons
Love
Time
You
People
World
Opportunity
Action
Believe
Think
Kinds
Blacks
Something
Only
Color
Opened
Over
Know
Up
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
America
Same
Same Time
Whether
Them
Poor
Poor People
Should
Certainly
Activism
Deserve
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
Women
Strong
Action
Approach
Corporations
Willing
More
Mentoring
Advance
Shareholders
Academy
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Boards
Tolerant
Appear
Resist
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.
Sonia Sotomayor
Balance
Try
Action
Those
Out
Concept
Biases
Built
Motivations
Testing
Cultural
Affirmative
Effects
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Susan Estrich
Time
Move On
Action
Other
Approach
Some
Never
Permanent
Truly
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Move
Meant
Meant To Be
Now
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
Tammy Bruce
Culture
Will
Own
Victim
Action
Other
Blacks
Well
Without
Doing
Been
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Quite
Patronizing
Succumbed
Measures
Who
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
Quentin Bryce
You
Action
Support
Affirmative
Affirmative Action
Special
Measures
Need
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