DaShanne Stokes

“If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.”

“Love should never mean having to live in fear.”

“People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.”

“Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.”

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

“Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.”

“Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution.”

“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.”

“We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.”

“We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.”

“Talk without the support of action means nothing.”

“Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.”

“Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.”

“Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.”

“Saying it's hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it's difficult being wealthy.”

“A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.”

“It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.”

“Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.”

“What does love mean if we would deny it to others?”

“Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.”