Top 120 DaShanne Stokes Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon.”

— DaShanne Stokes

52. “Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

54. “If you can’t see past my name, you can’t see me.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

56. “Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.”

— DaShanne Stokes

57. “The more we’re thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

59. “Free elections don’t always result in fair elections.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

61. “Claiming no responsibility when you put guns into people’s hands and they commit murder is like drug dealers claiming no responsibility for people dying from the drugs they sold them.”

— DaShanne Stokes

62. “Bigots often like to say they’re the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the ‘pity the privileged’ routine.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

66. “Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

71. “Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

73. “Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.”

— DaShanne Stokes

74. “Silencing women silences justice.”

— DaShanne Stokes

75. “Discrimination does not ‘make America great.’ It makes America weak.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

77. “The messages of racism, the lies, the fraud, the sexism – he’s sending a lot of really horrible messages to our children.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

89. “A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.”

— DaShanne Stokes

90. “If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

93. “When we hide racism under the guise of ‘humor,’ we insulate white racist privilege and make a mockery of civil rights.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

95. “Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.”

— DaShanne Stokes

96. “Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

99. “It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes