Affirmative Quotes

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

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

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

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

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

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

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 is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.

What is Kanye West's message? Like most rap, "I am the greatest person ever and you're not." I used to call it affirmative action for the ego.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

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I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.

Embrace life with hope than despair.

May my children, fear, know and walk with God.

I am confident of God’s faithfulness.

God’s grace is strong enough to hold me steady through every difficulty.

We are the chosen, called and blessed people

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

Believe is confident hope.Hope is faith.Faith is timeless possibility.Possibility is spiritual.Spiritual is divine

Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative

Embrace the possibility of a fulfilled dream.

We will never fail. We shall fulfil the dream.