Dashanne Quotes

#1. I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.

Taylor Swift

#2. Don't be a witness. Be an activist.

DaShanne Stokes

#3. I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.

Jules Olitski

#4. When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.

DaShanne Stokes

#5. The power of love is that it sees all people

DaShanne Stokes

#6. Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

DaShanne Stokes

#7. Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!

Ciaran Lynch

#8. Maybe it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about himself before now, she thought guiltily. Maybe it's just that I wasn't interested in listening.

Cathy Hapka

#9. Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.

DaShanne Stokes

#10. Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

DaShanne Stokes

#11. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

DaShanne Stokes

#12. Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Lemony Snicket

#13. Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

#14. I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

Miranda July

#15. What does love mean if we would deny it to others?

DaShanne Stokes

#16. Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

DaShanne Stokes

#17. Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

DaShanne Stokes

#18. In darkness there is death.

Bob Mayer

#19. Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?

DaShanne Stokes

#20. Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

DaShanne Stokes

#21. Love should never mean having to live in fear.

DaShanne Stokes

#22. Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

DaShanne Stokes

#23. The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?

DaShanne Stokes

#24. You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.

DaShanne Stokes

#25. As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it.

John Fowles

#26. We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

DaShanne Stokes

#27. Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

#29. Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.

DaShanne Stokes

#30. What if you knew that you would die tomorrow?"
"What do you mean? I live my life at the risk of dying at any time and that's called life.

Shuno

#31. Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

DaShanne Stokes

#32. Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

DaShanne Stokes

#33. Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's tradition.

DaShanne Stokes

#34. Love is a light; it brightens the way of life.

Debasish Mridha

#35. What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

DaShanne Stokes

#36. What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.

DaShanne Stokes

#37. People often call fighting discrimination being "PC" because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

DaShanne Stokes

#38. History must stay open, it is all humanity.

William Carlos Williams