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Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

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

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

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

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

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.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

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

For a long time, the Court has moved toward outlawing all forms of racial preference, including affirmative action, and Obama seems accepting, even supportive, of the change.