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...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

~ Maquita Donyel Irvin

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

~ Alex Morritt

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Electing a bigot enables further bigotry.

~ Dashanne Stokes

We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?

~ Aleksandra Layland

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

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

~ T.f. Hodge

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

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

~ Michael R. French

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

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ 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

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we are all different people with different differences! We all have different differences that are not all that different! Understanding is the matter! When we get to know and understand our differences well, we shall least spit on each other just because of our differences!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Dashanne Stokes

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