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I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Abuse Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Almost Benefit Had Ideals Immediately Middle-Class Regard Started System White Women Wonderful

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Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Abortion About Action Advance Affirmative Affirmative Action Campaign Campaign Finance Cared Clear Conservative Control Down Finance Gun Gun Control Judges Laid Legislation Many Most Opponents Other Political Predictable Progressives Rules Terms Understand

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I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

~Chaka Fattah

Topics: Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Definition Know Some

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Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Affirmative Correctness Cringe Ethnic General Help Hesitation Humble Identity Just Like Little More Negotiate People Street Struggling Who Yes Young Young People

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Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Advocating Affirmative Affirmative Action Diversity Inevitably Insufficient May More Politically Prism Results Through Will Yield

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To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Adequate Affirmative Affirmative Action Been Clear Decades Equitable Itself More Response Society Some Tool Towards Us

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Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Action Address Affirmative Affirmative Action Against Amends Communities Direct Exists Fail Federal Historical Inequality Make Marginalized Mechanism Members Policy Result Understood Until Which Will Wrongdoing

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To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Abandon About Action Affirmative Affirmative Action Discrimination Done More Nothing Say

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The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

~David Simon

Topics: Adult Affirmative Becomes Bureaucrats Change Coherent Cosmic Everything Foot Game Human Human Progress Instruments Joke Journalism Leaders Makes Policy Political Political Leaders Progress Rational Soldiers Suggestion Useful Very Viable Why Without

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We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

~David Souter

Topics: Affirmative Caused Conduct Defense Discrimination Employer Hold Liable Looking Subject Supervisor Vicariously Victim Well

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