A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.
– DaShanne Stokes
Related Quotes:
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The problem is people want help, but when help arrives you want to tell the help how to help you. Learn to RECEIVE help. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
- Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman
- 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
- Discrimination does not ‘make America great.’ It makes America weak. – DaShanne Stokes
- P.T.S.D. doesn’t make you weak. It makes you a survivor. – 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
- Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words? – DaShanne Stokes
- 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
- 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
- Never be content to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next. – DaShanne Stokes
- Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you. – DaShanne Stokes
- Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being. – Samael Aun Weor
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition. – 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
- Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress. – DaShanne Stokes
- Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. – DaShanne Stokes