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
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Love should never mean having to live in fear.
~ Dashanne Stokes
In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.
~ Abhijit Naskar
You can give life and take it away just as easily. You’re my blessing and my curse.
~ J.y. Tacheva
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
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
Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Homosexuals are not made, they are born.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.
~ Dashanne Stokes
The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.
~ Euphoria Godsent
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
Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.
~ Dashanne Stokes
If you think being straight means you're being discriminated against, you're probably misreading your privilege.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.
~ 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
Building bridges takes us further than building walls.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.
~ Dashanne Stokes
Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
~ Dashanne Stokes