Affirmative Quotes - Page 6

• Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because his father was a wealthy alumnus. But the White House counters that Saddam is a menace and must be stopped.

  Jon Stewart

  Father, Yale, White

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• 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

  Kings, School, Holiday

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Optimism, Choices, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2782, Delphi Classics

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• The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Race, Afterlife

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• Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Dysfunction, Example, Noir

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• 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 Simmons

  Strong, Boards, Corporations

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• White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, White Man, America

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• Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

  Jesse Jackson

  Race, Blue, Profound

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• Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

  Jill Stein

  Hate, Democracy, Needs

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Country, India, Action

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  Judith Butler

  Attitude, Law, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• If you represent all the people you should be able listen to someone who's pro-abortion are anti-abortion. Even though you might have a different view you should hear somebody who's pro-affirmative-action anti-affirmative action.

  David Duke

  Views, People, Abortion

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.

  David Duke

  Rights, Race, House

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action.

  David Duke

  People, Immigration, Firsts

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  Greatness, America, Diversity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here, if it weren't for Affirmative Action.' You put power in white people's hands, and then they use it against you. It's a trick bag.

  Shelby Steele

  Hands, White, People

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• There's a gap in perceptions between women and men. Women feel much freer than they did, but still, when alcohol is involved, especially, there's a lot of sexual assault, and a lot of confusion about that. So, we need to focus a lot more on what consent is and on the importance of affirmative consent.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Men, Confusion, Focus

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.

  William Julius Wilson

  Stress, Mean, Thinking

  Interview With Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October 1996.

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• The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.

  Cornel West

  Class, Issues, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.

  J. L. Austin

  Real, Knowing, Negative

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• 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.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Support, May

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• 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.

  Bill Maher

  Rap, Ego, West

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• If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

  Dick Durbin

  Children, Law, America

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• It's not a matter of just what we don't like and who we are most afraid of. We need an affirmative agenda if we're going to move forward as a democracy.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Democracy, Needs

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.

  Michael Beckwith

  Spiritual, Prayer, Practice

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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