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
Related Quotes:
- Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress. – DaShanne Stokes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate. – DaShanne Stokes
- It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones. – Christina Rickardsson
- Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned. – DaShanne Stokes
- How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character! – Israelmore Ayivor
- People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s not being in loving homes that hurts children most. – DaShanne Stokes
- Did I say stab of Self Pity? No, I was trekking through the Swamp of Self Pity at this point, waist deep in my own stinking shit. – Nicole Hamlett
- Never be content to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next. – DaShanne Stokes
- Let my heart fall into your life. Let my heart fall into your hand. Let it fall, let it fall – my heart to your heart. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
- Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t. – DaShanne Stokes
- People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
- Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. – DaShanne Stokes
- People often call fighting racism being ‘PC’ when they don’t want to confront their own prejudice – DaShanne Stokes
- Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall. – Jim George
- When you’re dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don’t say than what they do. – DaShanne Stokes
- The world could use more love. Why deny it to others? – DaShanne Stokes
- What does love mean if we would deny it to others? – DaShanne Stokes
- Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity. – DaShanne Stokes
- A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words? – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. – DaShanne Stokes
- It’s not ‘over-sensitivity’ to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others. – DaShanne Stokes
- 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
- It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others. – DaShanne Stokes
- Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. – DaShanne Stokes
- You’re not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you’ve always had. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you. – DaShanne Stokes
- From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us. – AJ Beirens
- Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens. – Matt Chandler
- Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Love should never mean having to live in fear. – DaShanne Stokes
- An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free. – DaShanne Stokes
- Don’t pity this sinful world!Just pity those who made it so! – Toba Beta
- All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. – Tom Robbins
- Pity. What a useless emotion when you don’t act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion. – Lish McBride
- If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people’s pity. – CJ Duggan
- When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon. – Michael Bassey Johnson