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Quotes by DaShanne Stokes

If your actions dont live up to your words, you have nothing to say.

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

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

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

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

Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions religious institutions have created problems for same-sex marriage.

The more were thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.

Democracy doesnt mean spreading terror.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. Thats no way to live.

Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.

Love should never mean having to live in fear.

The power of love is that it sees all people.

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

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

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

People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.

Freedom means equality. If you dont believe in equality for all, you dont believe in freedom.

Free elections dont always result in fair elections.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

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