Top 120 DaShanne Stokes Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “When a country with less than five percent of the world’s population has nearly half of the world’s privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world’s mass shootings, it’s time to stop saying guns make us safer.”

— DaShanne Stokes

52. “There is nothing ‘honorable’ or ‘reasonable’ in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

53. “If you think your religion requires discrimination, you’re probably misreading your faith.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

55. “Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t.”

— DaShanne Stokes

56. “If you won’t stand up against those who tear us apart with their lies, hate, and bigotry, expect to do a lot of sitting down.”

— DaShanne Stokes

57. “Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

58. “Thoughts and prayers won’t stop a speeding bullet.”

— DaShanne Stokes

59. “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

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

66. “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

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

72. “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

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

76. “Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

80. “Silencing women silences justice.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

90. “It’s not ‘over-sensitivity’ to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

97. “Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

100. “When you’ve grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.”

— DaShanne Stokes