Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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.
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.