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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.