Whites saying ‘make America white again’ is like millionaires saying ‘make the wealthy rich again.
– DaShanne Stokes
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- Do it again.Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it – Richelle E Goodrich
- Do it again.Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it – Richelle E Goodrich
- Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy. – DaShanne Stokes
- Discrimination does not ‘make America great.’ It makes America weak. – DaShanne Stokes
- Trump didn’t divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames. – DaShanne Stokes
- Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned. – DaShanne Stokes
- Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. – DaShanne Stokes
- There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America. – Barack Obama
- America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires. – Mark Twain
- The secret to becoming wealthy and successful is thinking wealthy and successful! – Stephen Richards
- The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs. – Mark Galli
- One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If you have money, you are affluent; if you have joy, you are wealthy; and if you have love, you are rich. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I am not rich, but I am wealthy and my wealth is my love. – Debasish Mridha
- You don’t have to be like most people around you, because most people never become truly rich and wealthy. – Manoj Arora
- Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work – Sunday Adelaja
- Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
- 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
- Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads. – 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
- Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn’t change. – 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
- We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard. – DaShanne Stokes
- It’s a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president. – DaShanne Stokes
- Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – DaShanne Stokes
- Calling for an end to hate shouldn’t be treated as a punishable offense. – DaShanne Stokes
- Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth. – 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
- People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
- The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
- Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. – DaShanne Stokes