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“Building bridges takes us further than building walls.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.”
― Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.”
― DaShanne Stokes

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

“People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

“Religious fundamentalism advocates homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, polygamy and many other primitive evils. 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 â€� a theoretical pest from the stone-age, who somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect. Such a creature with no modern mental faculty whatsoever, knows nothing beyond the words of a book, written hundreds or thousands of years ago, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking in the society. It does not only believe every single word of a book to be literally true, but puts all its efforts to convince others to believe the same. This way, it would be an understatement to say, such is a worthless creature. In reality, such a creature can cause a catastrophic contagion in a society, especially if that society is already going through socio-political turmoil.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment. Thus he chose to remember Hamlet's abuse of Ophelia, but not Christ's love of Mary Magdalene; Hamlet's frivolous politics, but not Christ's serious anarchy. He noticed Gibbon's acidity, but not his tolerance, Othello's love for the fair Desdemona, but not Iago's perverted love of Othello. The works he admired most were Dante's; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky's. For all his exposure to the best minds of the Western world, he allowed only the narrowest interpretation to touch him.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“There is no greater spiritual journey than the rejection of prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience