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If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.DaShanne Stokes
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If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.DaShanne Stokes
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If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.DaShanne Stokes
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When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.DaShanne Stokes
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Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.DaShanne Stokes
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Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.DaShanne Stokes
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The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.DaShanne Stokes
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Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.DaShanne Stokes
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Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.DaShanne Stokes
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Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.DaShanne Stokes
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Love should never mean having to live in fear.DaShanne Stokes
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The power of love is that it sees all people.DaShanne Stokes
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The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?DaShanne Stokes
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People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.DaShanne Stokes
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What does love mean if we would deny it to others?DaShanne Stokes
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People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.DaShanne Stokes
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Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.DaShanne Stokes
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Free elections don't always result in fair elections.DaShanne Stokes
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An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.DaShanne Stokes
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Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.DaShanne Stokes
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A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.DaShanne Stokes
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Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.DaShanne Stokes
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A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.DaShanne Stokes
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Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.DaShanne Stokes
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Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.DaShanne Stokes
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If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy, " you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.DaShanne Stokes
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Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.DaShanne Stokes
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When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.DaShanne Stokes
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Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.DaShanne Stokes
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One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.DaShanne Stokes
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We must acknowledge and take responsibility for the conflicts we have helped to create, and act to create real change. That, after all, is the true hallmark of democracy--a commitment to justice, honest self-appraisal, and action--even when it means challenging ourselves and the political institutions we hold most dear.DaShanne Stokes
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Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.DaShanne Stokes
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We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.DaShanne Stokes
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Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.DaShanne Stokes
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Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.DaShanne Stokes
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Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.DaShanne Stokes
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No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.DaShanne Stokes
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Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.DaShanne Stokes
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Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.DaShanne Stokes
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If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.DaShanne Stokes
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Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.DaShanne Stokes
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Denying the popular vote is un- American and anti-democratic.DaShanne Stokes
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I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.DaShanne Stokes
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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
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Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.DaShanne Stokes
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We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.DaShanne Stokes
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Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out.DaShanne Stokes
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Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.DaShanne Stokes
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Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.DaShanne Stokes
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Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.DaShanne Stokes
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You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.DaShanne Stokes
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A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.DaShanne Stokes
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Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.DaShanne Stokes
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Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.DaShanne Stokes
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We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.DaShanne Stokes
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P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.DaShanne Stokes
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Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.DaShanne Stokes
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Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?DaShanne Stokes
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Talk without the support of action means nothing.DaShanne Stokes
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If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.DaShanne Stokes
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Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.DaShanne Stokes
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Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.DaShanne Stokes
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If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.DaShanne Stokes
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Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.DaShanne Stokes
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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
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If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.DaShanne Stokes
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Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.DaShanne Stokes
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If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.DaShanne Stokes
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Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.DaShanne Stokes
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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
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If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.DaShanne Stokes
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Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.DaShanne Stokes
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Building bridges takes us further than building walls.DaShanne Stokes
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It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.DaShanne Stokes
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Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.DaShanne Stokes
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Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.DaShanne Stokes
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What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?DaShanne Stokes
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It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.DaShanne Stokes
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Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.DaShanne Stokes
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Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.DaShanne Stokes
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Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.DaShanne Stokes
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Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.DaShanne Stokes
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Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.DaShanne Stokes
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What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.DaShanne Stokes
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Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.DaShanne Stokes
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People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.DaShanne Stokes
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It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.DaShanne Stokes
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There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.DaShanne Stokes
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Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.DaShanne Stokes
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An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.DaShanne Stokes
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Let them have guns' is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as 'Let them have drugs' is a solution to drug addiction.DaShanne Stokes
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When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.DaShanne Stokes
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Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.DaShanne Stokes
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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
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It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.DaShanne Stokes
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Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.DaShanne Stokes
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Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.DaShanne Stokes
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Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.DaShanne Stokes
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The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.DaShanne Stokes
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Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.DaShanne Stokes