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Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.
– DaShanne Stokes

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  1. If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm. – David Halberstam
  2. Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. – DaShanne Stokes
  3. A claim that event horizons exist is like someone’s claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim. – Seth Lloyd
  4. Privilege doesn’t just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity. – DaShanne Stokes
  5. If you think being straight means you’re being discriminated against, you’re probably misreading your privilege. – DaShanne Stokes
  6. Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t. – DaShanne Stokes
  7. What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? – DaShanne Stokes
  8. Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate. – DaShanne Stokes
  9. Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted. – DaShanne Stokes
  10. Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. – DaShanne Stokes
  11. Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you. – DaShanne Stokes
  12. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – DaShanne Stokes
  13. An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people. – DaShanne Stokes
  14. The thickest sweats produce the sweetest life. A hard work surely brings unheard happiness. Dig up your gold. – Israelmore Ayivor
  15. Her today’s silence is the unheard shouts from past that you never listened. – Himanshu Chhabra
  16. There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. – Arundhati Roy
  17. Riding in a carriage without an escort is modern. But traveling out and about unescorted is unheard of. – Jordan Stratford
  18. The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
  19. To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make! – Criss Jami
  20. I don’t claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known. – SA Tawks
  21. There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us. – Kamand Kojouri
  22. The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
  23. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. – Gloria E Anzalda
  24. Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
  25. A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence. – DaShanne Stokes
  26. Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads. – DaShanne Stokes
  27. Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic. – DaShanne Stokes
  28. No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College. – DaShanne Stokes
  29. Today’s ‘religious freedom’ policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all. – DaShanne Stokes
  30. Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out. – DaShanne Stokes
  31. Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn’t change. – DaShanne Stokes
  32. Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now. – DaShanne Stokes
  33. We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. – DaShanne Stokes
  34. Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy. – DaShanne Stokes
  35. Calling for an end to hate shouldn’t be treated as a punishable offense. – DaShanne Stokes
  36. Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth. – DaShanne Stokes
  37. People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
  38. The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
  39. Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes
  40. Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. – DaShanne Stokes

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