Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.
– DaShanne Stokes
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- We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear -œstaying stuck.- We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying. – Susan Jeffers
- Free elections don’t always result in fair elections. – DaShanne Stokes
- Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law. – DaShanne Stokes
- To see another as God intended, we must come from a place of loving inside ourselves, as God intended. – Lori Cash Richards
- I never intended to become a zombie huntress; I had only intended to protest prom, high school’s last bastion of patriarchal society. – GG Silverman
- Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
- Love should never mean having to live in fear. – DaShanne Stokes
- Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- [‘non-white’ gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia – Eric C Wat
- Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- The power of love is that it sees all people. – DaShanne Stokes
- The world could use more love. Why deny it to others? – DaShanne Stokes
- Freedom means equality. If you don’t believe in equality for all, you don’t believe in freedom. – DaShanne Stokes
- Discrimination does not ‘make America great.’ It makes America weak. – DaShanne Stokes
- Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity. – DaShanne Stokes
- Violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution. – DaShanne Stokes
- Leadership by deception isn’t leadership. It’s fraud. – DaShanne Stokes
- Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives. – DaShanne Stokes
- We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts. – 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
- Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t. – 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
- 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
- What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? – DaShanne Stokes
- Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud. – DaShanne Stokes
- Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth. – DaShanne Stokes
- People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged. – DaShanne Stokes
- There is nothing ‘honorable’ or ‘reasonable’ in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate. – DaShanne Stokes
- An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people. – DaShanne Stokes
- When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all. – 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
- Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all. – DaShanne Stokes
- The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins. – DaShanne Stokes
- Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes
- It’s illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. – DaShanne Stokes