Discrimination Quotes Quotes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is beyond all sectarianism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

The power of love is that it sees all people.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant being confronted with every possible kind ofobstacle and discrimination. It meant being told that if you want to race with men, you’d have to do it with your hands and legs cut off. I started to wish I had been born somewhere—anywhere—else.

~ Manal Al-Sharif

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important, it's an act of revolution.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

~ 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

Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.

~ 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