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“Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students”


Ernest van den Haag

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“Affirmative action has done as much injury to black scholars as black students”
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United ...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit...
HENRY LOUIS GATES Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated "all my homosexual patients are quite sick" - to which I...
ERNEST VAN DEN HAAG And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do mysel...
KATHRYN L. NELSON This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I most remember the Black faculty lunches he would host while working as the faculty assistant for a...
CHARLES HENRY I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very...
SHEMAR MOORE Black as the night.
Black as the depths.
Black as your heart.
Where your hatred's at ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a ma...
DARNELL JENKINS It was so beautiful, because I knew they weren't just embracing what we had done. They were embracin...
CRAIG MARBERRY Our admissions office has done a terrific job of bringing black students to campus. In the last seve...
DAN BUNCH Pink has become as ubiquitous as black. Who would have thought that?
CONSTANCE WHITE I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one...
J. C. WATTS America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are...
AMIRI BARAKA We as black students have lost our minds. What the hell is wrong with you calling yourself a minorit...
JEFFREY JOHNSON To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.
CORETTA SCOTT KING I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students...
BELL HOOKS Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are rig...
GREGG ANDREWS As much as we are aware of the indignation of the world out there, we believe that this thing has to...
JOSEFA NATA Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ...
AUDRE LORDE I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black stud...
BELL HOOKS Black as night, sweet as sin.
NEIL GAIMAN Sound production by black drum serves as proxy for spawning. We want to see if it is possible to fin...
JIM LOCASCIO [Every season, fashion experts jokingly describe the popular color as] the new black. ... black is t...
BETSY THOMPSON White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as de...
G. K. CHESTERTON White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, a...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as de...
G.K. CHESTERTON Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he...
NAOMI WOOD As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
BILL COSBY It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful
BILL COSBY [O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segreg...
JOHN LEWIS As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the bl...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.
VIKRMN I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he'...
PETER BRIMELOW As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the ot...
SERGEI LUKYANENKO When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action...
ADAM COHEN Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility ...
BERNIE MAC I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien...
ELVIS MITCHELL Don’t you dare come into my world and tell me what color the ocean is! It’s black. Black as midn...
NADIA SCRIEVA Black as the Devil, sweet as a stolen kiss
POLISH PROVERB She passed as a black woman. She was treated as a black woman. That is her place in history. She did...
LARRY LESTER The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ...
ABERJHANI Then you should have died!" Roared Black. "Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have do...
J.K. ROWLING Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
JULIAN BOND The devil is not as black as he is painted.
DANTE ALIGHIERI I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE LINDBERGH Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH On the second floor were the white students, and the third floor was for black students,
JACK STEWART As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutate...
JAMES ELLROY Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND (Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)

"Lion, rifles -- and stupid...
BERYL MARKHAM Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
TURKISH PROVERB Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
PROVERB Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love
TURKISH PROVERB As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Tale...
BURGESS OWENS Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women....
BELL HOOKS [That little man in black says] woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman...
SOJOURNER TRUTH Black as the devil, Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND ...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is someh...
ADAM J. BANKS Oppenheimer was well known for black hole theory. He as a subject was a black hole — extremely enig...
KAI BIRD Vaughan is a very good player who has done a great job as Test captain but he has always got injury ...
DEAN JONES Black is very strong this season, especially black head-to-toe in varying textures. Black outfits ar...
BETSY THOMPSON As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that ...
DON CHEADLE You can have any color you want, as long as it's black.
HENRY FORD The best part for me was seeing black students — African-American students — from across the state...
MARCHELLO CAVITT When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school ...
GWEN IFILL We will do for the veteran businesses what Black Enterprise has done for the African-American busine...
CHRIS HALE Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.
DMX to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible.
KANYE WEST Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i...
ISSA RAE Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
TONI MORRISON Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make f...
MORRIS CHESTNUT Any colour - so long as it's black.
HENRY FORD Trues and lies are not as black or white...
PHILIP T. M. You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far as a Black person in white America.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PROVERB It's just that white students fell faster than black students. This is absolutely the wrong kind of ...
DARIA HALL The black farmer, working hard for his own, became the living symbol of the strong, independent blac...
JUAN WILLIAMS He started hauling black dirt and manure for people's gardens pretty much as a hobby. It ended up a ...
BRUCE DRESEL Somebody has to fill in the blanks as to why the response was different, ... We have a traditional r...
RON WALTERS Black holes, black holes, black holes. We're seeing them early in the universe, in huge sizes, in mu...
ANDREW WEISSKOPF A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Black and bitter and never quite right.
JODI PICOULT He has left a tiny exit route, which is good because in the international arena, he is seen as very ...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op...
ERNEST RENAN No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain ...
ERNEST RENAN