Dashanne Stokes Quotes

If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.

~ Dashanne Stokes

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Love should never mean having to live in fear.

~ Dashanne Stokes

The power of love is that it sees all people.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Free elections don't always result in fair elections.

~ Dashanne Stokes

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

~ Dashanne Stokes

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

~ Dashanne Stokes

A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

~ Dashanne Stokes

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

~ Dashanne Stokes

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Fascism thrives in obscurity and darkness.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes