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Quotes about Affirmative

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.
- John F. Kennedy
Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but being singled out, it's like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it's like, whatever.
- Andre Iguodala
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.
- Sonia Sotomayor