Jair Bolsonaro Quotes

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

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval of affirmative action.… We have to prove ourselves and we have to work hard doing it.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

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.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

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

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

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

Government service in all its branches, state and federal, would have to be thrown open to all on the basis solely of merit, and promotions made accordingly. It would probably be necessary to have drastic laws against manifestations of color prejudice and discrimination, just as we have legislated against kidnapping, arson and murder which are certainly no more serious from the viewpoint of national welfare.

I am the perfect affirmative action baby.

I believe it's wrong to say someone can't do his or her job because of their heritage.

To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I am an affirmative action hire.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

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.

Principles which united American liberals for generations, now divide me from some who seek equality of result and who sanction the preferences imposed by government to attain it.

I believe in individual freedom, equal opportunity at the starting line without a preordained order of finish.

To say that a millionaire son of a Black deserves a preference over a poor White is pure madness.