Top 120 DaShanne Stokes Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

56. “We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children’s children, not to party politics.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

61. “Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

65. “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

66. “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

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

81. “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

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

95. “Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.”

— DaShanne Stokes

96. “Silencing women silences justice.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes