“If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Adoptee rights are everyone’s rights, and they deserve to be protected.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Silencing women silences justice.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“When we hide discrimination under the guise of ‘religious freedom,’ we make a mockery of human rights.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Amazing how eye and skin color come in many shades yet many think sexuality is just gay or straight.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Terror doesn’t change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.”
— 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
“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
“We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Whites saying ‘make America white again’ is like millionaires saying ‘make the wealthy rich again.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“People often call fighting racism being ‘PC’ when they don’t want to confront their own prejudice”
— 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
“Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of 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
“Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.”
— DaShanne Stokes
“When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.”
— DaShanne Stokes