Quotes About Affirmative

Dean and Leach represented Fairmount in an hourlong debate against Marion High that was broadcast on local radio. They argued the affirmative side of the proposition, "The election of United States presidents should be by the direct vote of the people.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

In the grip of depression or anxiety, any affirmative step is better than paralysis. Action promotes more action; decision produces decision; living generates life.

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

We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

It's an impossible situation. We need to stick together in the face of this rampant affirmative action that lauds skin color over experience.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

His face radiated more petulance than fear. "But you're handicapped! Handicapped people don't steal!" "I'm in an affirmative action program. It gives criminal opportunities to the disabled. Throw me your cell phone." He

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.

If we conservatives "of color" refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of "selling out.

Spencer has told me to always pray in the affirmative, as though the prayer has already been answered. I should say, "Thank you, God, for helping me be kind and patient." As opposed to, "Please, God, help me be patient." Affirmative prayer reinforces that you have already received the guidance, therefore you are able to focus on the solution. Saying that I need help just reinforces the problem—helping me wallow in it.

also mention in the same book that Master Imakita Kosen likewise writes in the fourth chapter of Zenkai Ichiran that the consistent way of a superior man lies nowhere but in saying, "Yes!"7 Master Takuan calls this mind that answers, "Yes!" Immovable Wisdom. I think that this spontaneous response to anything in the affirmative selflessly and with mu-shin (no mind) is "praising the practice of zazen and faithfully following it.