Coretta Scott King Quotes

Affirmative action is under attack today, not because it has failed, but because it succeeded.

We suspect that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

Racial preferences are dead. All that is required now is to give them a decent and honorable burial.

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

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

We don’t treat racism by practicing racism.

Affirmative action takes many forms in our society. White fraternity members help others with jobs.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

Slavery was gone but its inequalities remained.

We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

The fact is that in too many parts of our country, we still have discrimination. And affirmative action is not just something that applies to people of color. Some people have a mistaken view of it in America. It also is with respect to women, it's with respect to other efforts to try to reach out and be inclusive in our country.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

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

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.