Opposition
Notable opponents of the MCRI include:
- One United Michigan
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
- Former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos
- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
- By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
- Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell
- Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
- Association of Michigan Universities (AMU)
- Michigan Civil Rights Commission
- Al Sharpton
- Detroit City Council
- American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC)
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Detroit Federation of Teachers
- Arab American Institute
- Green Party of Michigan (GPMI)
- Socialist Party of Michigan (SPMI)
Read more about this topic: Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
Famous quotes containing the word opposition:
“Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action.... Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and strength in opposition one against the other. We can readily integrate the two, search for more and better ways to use affiliation to enhance strength—and strength to enhance affiliation.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)
“Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as “right” in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as “brute force.””
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)