In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.


"Help", speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (3 March 2007), in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 99

Bill Moyers Quotes

In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up...

In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up...

In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up...

In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up...