34 Quotes About Affirmative-action

Embrace life with hope than despair.

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

Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.

Affirmative Action is in place because the systems of society were put in place to favor one race of people who had a 300 year head start on people of color. I am calling for better education so people like you understand who America truly is.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188

Affirmative action is the giving, to some people, of a fair disadvantage.

Embrace the possibility of a fulfilled dream.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.