Free elections don’t always result in fair elections.
– DaShanne Stokes
Related Quotes:
- In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. – Matt Taibbi
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law. – DaShanne Stokes
- A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
- An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free. – DaShanne Stokes
- Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free. – DaShanne Stokes
- You’re not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you’ve always had. – DaShanne Stokes
- We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. – Allan Dare Pearce
- A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. – William Shakespeare
- Fair only counts with people who are fair. – Sharon Law Tucker
- If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up. – Michael Treanor
- Fair warning, baby. I’m in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn’t play fair or nice.–Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson – Naima Simone
- Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live. – DaShanne Stokes
- The power of love is that it sees all people. – 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