Affirmative Quotes - Page 3

• Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting America back to work, blacks should have said yes, but they didn't. They were so preoccupied with affirmative action that they didn't provide the kind of leadership that would help some of the other progressive folks. Only now are black leaders beginning to realize the impact of economic issues.

  William Julius Wilson

  Leader, Black, Helping

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

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• This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this earnest question with a strong and simple "I must," then build your life according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Then draw near to Nature. Then try, like some first human being, to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Strong, Nature, Writing

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• La discriminación positiva basada en cuotas es errónea - errónea porque es antitética al genio de la idea estadounidense: la libertad individual.

  Jack Kemp

  Ideas, Liberty, Quota

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• Durante toda mi carrera he sido un firme defensor de los derechos civiles. Lideré la lucha para que se volviera a promulgar la ley del derecho al voto. He sido un firme defensor de la discriminación positiva. Creo firmemente en ella.

  Dick Gephardt

  Fuerte, Creer, Luchar

  "Gephardt admite su error en cuestiones raciales en los años 70", www.foxnews.com. 11 de enero de 2004.

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

  Joe Lieberman

  Support, Action, Affirmative Action

  "Gore jets to Los Angeles to join rallying Democrats" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com.

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• Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

  Tom Lantos

  New York, Profound, Weakness

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• Ciertamente, la búsqueda afirmativa de las propias convicciones sobre el misterio último del universo y la relación del hombre con él está fuera del alcance de la ley. El gobierno no puede interferir en las expresiones organizadas o individuales de creencia o incredulidad. La propagación de la creencia -o incluso de la incredulidad- en lo sobrenatural está protegida, ya sea en una iglesia o capilla, mezquita o sinagoga, tabernáculo o casa de reuniones.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Expression, Law

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• El gobierno puede respaldar sus gustos y creencias con el poder policial. Por eso no se le pueden permitir gustos y creencias. Y lo que es más importante, no se le puede permitir que defina a un grupo como privilegiado frente a otro grupo de personas. Estuvo mal en los tiempos de Jim Crow; está mal en los tiempos de la discriminación positiva.

  Charles A. Murray

  Government, People, Police

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• 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.

  Wesley Clark

  America, Choices, Action

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

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Action, Crucial

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Real, Class, Race

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Action

  "Cornel West reconsidera al presidente Obama". "Talk of the Nation" con Tony Cox, www.npr.org. 2 de agosto de 2010.

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• If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout the federal government, starting with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. If there are no victims, all affirmative action laws will immediately be repealed. Same thing for equity in pay.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Justice, Office

  Fuente: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.

  Barney Frank

  People, Done, Importance

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• Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

  Andy Borowitz

  Slavery, Action, Settling

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 26, 2012

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• Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Believe, Animal, Perfection

  "The Causes of Evolution". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1932.

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• Coge a un niño negro pobre. Dale una buena educación, dile que es alguien, que Dios no creó basura cuando lo creó a él, y ese niño negro creará su propia discriminación positiva.

  J. C. Watts

  Children, Giving, Black

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• During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives - they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.

  Warren Farrell

  New York, Husband, Years

  "El mito del poder masculino". Libro de Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Fundamentalmente, si la liga va a tener una política de no tolerancia para el abuso doméstico, si vamos a ser una organización global que va a tener esto como perspectiva, tenemos que respaldarlo. No podemos dejarnos llevar por un vídeo y que salgan más. Tenemos que adoptar una postura afirmativa al respecto.

  Steve Young

  Organization, League, Perspective

  "Steve Young Calls Out The NFL For Only Banning Ray Rice Because The Elevator Video Came Out" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. September 08, 2014.

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• I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

  Quentin Bryce

  Support, Special, Needs

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• 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.

  Faye Wattleton

  Thinking, Doors, Race

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• I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

  Ben Lerner

  Artist, Stupidity, Culture

  "La desesperación me parece eminentemente razonable y aburrida". Entrevista con Tao Lin, believermag.com. Septiembre de 2014.

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• One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.

  Christopher Caldwell

  Strong, Moving, World

  Christopher Caldwell (2009). “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West”, p.313, Penguin UK

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• Creo que necesitamos más soluciones de base económica para los problemas que aquejan a la comunidad negra, y creo que esa es una forma de redefinir la discriminación positiva. Crecí con gente blanca pobre en Virginia Occidental, y sé que existe una cultura de la pobreza. Sé que he visto a gente blanca adoptar exactamente las mismas formas patológicas de comportamiento que los negros cuando sufren privaciones sistemáticas, ya sea quedarse embarazada, consumir drogas, abandonar los estudios, o lo que sea de lo que estemos hablando. Creo que también deberíamos tener una discriminación positiva para los blancos pobres.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Escuela, Pensamiento, Virginia

  "El programa de Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. 21 de octubre de 2013.

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