Lgbt Rights Quotes

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

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

~ 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

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

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

~ David Levithan

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

The Catholic Church standing in solidarity with members of the LGBT community while condemning their behavior as sinful is a little like attempting to stand with two feet in one shoe. Love the sinner, hate the sin sounds really high-minded until you realize the only sin committed was being born different.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

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

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Rainbow on the inside!” He giggles. “Can you imagine if we all took them for Pride? Dozens of us. Hundreds. Thousands? All of us marching, rainbow to the core?

~ Fox Benwell

Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.

~ Dashanne Stokes

It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.

~ Cassandra Duffy

If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying hoe or bitch I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm sick of rappers using bitches and hoes as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a hate group. Feminists are not all female. Nor has it got an anti-male agenda. It's about equality! I've had a weird, special bond with women since I was a kid. And it's just a shame really that I'm gay.

~ Scott Mcgoldrick

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

~ Euphoria Godsent

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

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

Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.

~ Solange Nicole

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

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

~ 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