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:
“At times it seems that the media have become the mainstream culture in children’s lives. Parents have become the alternative. Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Today they are expected to raise their children in opposition to it.”
—Ellen Goodman (20th century)
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—Susan Pecker Fowler (1823–1911)
“A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)