Equality Measures Quotes

I think there are some things that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.

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

We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.

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

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

We should get rid of 'tick box' measures that do nothing to address underlying inequality in areas like employment. And we should interrogate the claims of victimization made by some organizations to get their slice of pie.

I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community.

I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.