We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
– DaShanne Stokes
Related Quotes:
- Electing a bigot enables further bigotry. – DaShanne Stokes
- Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness–even from a president. – DaShanne Stokes
- We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges. – DaShanne Stokes
- Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. – DaShanne Stokes
- If you’d combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are. – DaShanne Stokes
- 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
- The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
- Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. – DaShanne Stokes
- This won’t stop her from getting elected…Stupider people get elected all the time. It’s America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy. – Rachel Caine
- If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer. – John R Mott
- I’ve fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ bills aren’t it. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you. – DaShanne Stokes
- There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever. – Debasish Mridha
- The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. – Ashley Montagu
- Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads. – DaShanne Stokes
- Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people. – DaShanne Stokes
- We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. – DaShanne Stokes
- Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
- The world could use more love. Why deny it to others? – DaShanne Stokes
- Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn’t change. – DaShanne Stokes
- It’s a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racism is dead only to those who’ve closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them. – DaShanne Stokes
- Who is fit to be elected?’ asked Napoleon. ‘A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance. – Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I’ll tell you who you really are. – Brunonia Barry
- A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence. – DaShanne Stokes
- Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity. – DaShanne Stokes
- Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic. – DaShanne Stokes
- No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College. – DaShanne Stokes
- 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
- Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now. – DaShanne Stokes
- Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard. – DaShanne Stokes
- Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – 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
- Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. – DaShanne Stokes