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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

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

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

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.