Top 120 DaShanne Stokes Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Freedom means equality. If you don’t believe in equality for all, you don’t believe in freedom.”

— DaShanne Stokes

52. “A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

53. “What matters most is not ‘what’ you are, but ‘who’ you are.”

— DaShanne Stokes

54. “It’s a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.”

— DaShanne Stokes

55. “It’s not conversion ‘therapy;’ it’s conversion brainwashing.”

— DaShanne Stokes

56. “No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.”

— DaShanne Stokes

57. “Democracy doesn’t mean spreading terror.”

— DaShanne Stokes

58. “The power of love is that it sees all people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

59. “Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ’tradition.”

— DaShanne Stokes

60. “If lies are more comforting to you than facts, you need to get out of your comfort zone.”

— DaShanne Stokes

61. “If guns don’t kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns?”

— DaShanne Stokes

62. “Terror doesn’t change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

63. “Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes

64. “Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live.”

— DaShanne Stokes

65. “An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.”

— DaShanne Stokes

66. “Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.”

— DaShanne Stokes

67. “We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.”

— DaShanne Stokes

68. “Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy.”

— DaShanne Stokes

69. “If you lay with a scorpion, don’t be surprised when it finally stings you.”

— DaShanne Stokes

70. “Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.”

— DaShanne Stokes

71. “Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

72. “One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important; it’s an act of revolution.”

— DaShanne Stokes

73. “Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.”

— DaShanne Stokes

74. “Resistance isn’t enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.”

— DaShanne Stokes

75. “Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.”

— DaShanne Stokes

76. “Leadership by deception isn’t leadership. It’s fraud.”

— DaShanne Stokes

77. “If you’d combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.”

— DaShanne Stokes

78. “Adoption isn’t just a childhood experience, it’s a life-long experience.”

— DaShanne Stokes

79. “We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.”

— DaShanne Stokes

80. “Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

81. “Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.”

— DaShanne Stokes

82. “You’re not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you’ve always had.”

— DaShanne Stokes

83. “Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.”

— DaShanne Stokes

84. “Silencing women silences justice.”

— DaShanne Stokes

85. “What does love mean if we would deny it to others?”

— DaShanne Stokes

86. “Privilege doesn’t just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.”

— DaShanne Stokes

87. “When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

88. “Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.”

— DaShanne Stokes

89. “Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

90. “Racism is dead only to those who’ve closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.”

— DaShanne Stokes

91. “People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most.”

— DaShanne Stokes

92. “Trump didn’t divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.”

— DaShanne Stokes

93. “Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

94. “Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.”

— DaShanne Stokes

95. “We cannot be a union of states if we fail to unite as people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

96. “Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.”

— DaShanne Stokes

97. “Whites saying ‘make America white again’ is like millionaires saying ’make the wealthy rich again.”

— DaShanne Stokes

98. “Adoptee rights are everyone’s rights, and they deserve to be protected.”

— DaShanne Stokes

99. “People often call fighting discrimination being “PC” because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged.”

— DaShanne Stokes

100. “We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.”

— DaShanne Stokes