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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.

— Gloria Steinem

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Chaka Fattah

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

— Sonia Sotomayor

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

— Sonia Sotomayor

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.

— Jim Webb

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

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

— Alan Dershowitz

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

— John Kasich

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

— Jayson Blair

✗Opposing Perspectives

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

— James Earl Jones

Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton