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

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

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  1. If you’d combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are. – DaShanne Stokes
  2. Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
  3. If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness–even from a president. – DaShanne Stokes
  4. 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
  5. Electing a bigot enables further bigotry. – DaShanne Stokes
  6. Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. – DaShanne Stokes
  7. 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
  8. The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
  9. Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. – DaShanne Stokes
  10. We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail. – DaShanne Stokes
  11. A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws. – DaShanne Stokes
  12. Freedom means equality. If you don’t believe in equality for all, you don’t believe in freedom. – DaShanne Stokes
  13. A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
  14. Free elections don’t always result in fair elections. – DaShanne Stokes
  15. An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free. – DaShanne Stokes
  16. Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free. – DaShanne Stokes
  17. You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it. – Scott Howard Phillips
  18. Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves. – Devdutt Pattanaik
  19. Truth is a T-Rex. Let it out and you won’t need to defend it. It’ll defend itself. – Abhijit Naskar
  20. Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy. – Coco J Ginger
  21. The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything. – Robert Lynd
  22. From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us. – AJ Beirens
  23. We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
  24. Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea – William O Douglas
  25. When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
  26. Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
  27. A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  28. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
  29. Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism. – Abhijit Naskar
  30. I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. – Margaret Mead
  31. Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
  32. A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence. – DaShanne Stokes
  33. Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic. – DaShanne Stokes
  34. Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out. – DaShanne Stokes
  35. Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn’t change. – DaShanne Stokes
  36. Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy. – DaShanne Stokes
  37. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – DaShanne Stokes
  38. Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth. – DaShanne Stokes
  39. People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
  40. Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes

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