DaShanne Stokes Quotes

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

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

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

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

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

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

Talk without the support of action means nothing.

P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.

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

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

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

Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

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

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

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

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.

Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.

When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.

Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.

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

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

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

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

Free elections don't always result in fair elections.

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.