Affirmative Quotes

You'd have to take an individual search, an individual process, and there would have to be an individual case that would warrant that. An affirmative action policy would have to be involved (and disregarded by the school). - Floyd Keith

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that producers must take the necessary steps to include opportunities for people with disabilities and a vast majority of them do. - Richard Masur

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action. - John Roberts

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - 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

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. - Abraham Lincoln

When people say there will be seismic changes in affirmative action and religion, I think that's just smoke... I don't think there's much room for change. There's room at the margins in close cases. - Richard Garnett

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

We will be testing the affirmative defense. - Julian Morales