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Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work? ↗

— Jon Stewart

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

— Chaka Fattah

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ↗

— John Burroughs

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And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. ↗

— David Duke

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

— Harold Washington

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

— Harold Washington

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I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society. ↗

— Kerry Washington

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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. ↗

— J. C. Watts

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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. ↗

— J. C. Watts

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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