If your actions don’t 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, you’re probably misreading your faith.
When you’ve 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 we’re thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That’s no way to live.
Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.
The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?
People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it’s 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 don’t believe in equality for all, you don’t believe in freedom.
Free elections don’t 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.
A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.
A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence.
Those who incite violence have no business lecturing others about unity.
Violence isn’t a Democrat or Republican problem. It’s an American problem, requiring an American solution.
If you voted for a man who said “Grab em by the pussy,” you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.
Leadership by deception isn’t leadership. It’s fraud.
When you’re dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don’t say than what they do.
Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.
One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.
Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.
We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children’s children, not to party politics.
Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.
Ethics and oversight are what you eliminate when you want absolute power.
No matter their party, people with a conflict of interest should be banned from the Electoral College.
Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.
If you lay with a scorpion, don’t be surprised when it finally stings you.
Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.
I’ve fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay ‘religious freedom’ bills aren’t it.
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.
Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.
We elected a man who knows how to build walls when we needed someone who knows how to build bridges.
Only by speaking out can we create lasting change. And that change begins with coming out.
Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn’t change.
Being denied their original birth certificates isn’t just a problem for adoptees. It’s a social problem, requiring social change.
Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.
You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.
A fool can’t help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.
Privilege doesn’t just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.
Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress.
We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.
P.T.S.D. doesn’t make you weak. It makes you a survivor.
Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.
Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
If you’d combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.
Saying it’s hard being straight is like complaining to the poor that it’s difficult being wealthy.
Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.
If you think being straight means you’re being discriminated against, you’re probably misreading your privilege.
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don’t.
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.
Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.
If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.
Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.
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.
If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness–even from a president.
Trump didn’t divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.
Building bridges takes us further than building walls.
It’s a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.
Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it’s ‘tradition.
Calling for an end to hate shouldn’t be treated as a punishable offense.
What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?
It’s terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.
Racism is dead only to those who’ve closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.
Lies sound like facts to those who’ve been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.
What matters most is not ‘what’ you are, but ‘who’ you are.
Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.
People often call fighting discrimination being ‘PC’ because they don’t want their own unearned privileges challenged.
It’s not ‘over-sensitivity’ to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
There is nothing ‘honorable’ or ‘reasonable’ in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.
Adoption isn’t just a childhood experience, it’s a life-long experience.
An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.
Let them have guns’ is as much a solution to mass murder and gun violence as ‘Let them have drugs’ is a solution to drug addiction.
When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.
Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.
It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.
Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.
Political correctness’ as ‘over-sensitivity’ is code for saying the privileged shouldn’t have their unearned privileges questioned.
Saying something is ‘politically correct’ is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that’s the minute bigotry wins.
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.
Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It’s progress.
It’s illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon.
You’re not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you’ve always had.
Never be content to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.
Privilege is not knowing that you’re hurting others and not listening when they tell you.
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.
Whites saying ‘make America white again’ is like millionaires saying ‘make the wealthy rich again.
People often call fighting racism being ‘PC’ when they don’t want to confront their own prejudice
Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.
Terror doesn’t change people from gay to straight. It just hurts innocent people.
Amazing how eye and skin color come in many shades yet many think sexuality is just gay or straight.
Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.
When we hide discrimination under the guise of ‘religious freedom,’ we make a mockery of human rights.
Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.
Adoptee rights are everyone’s rights, and they deserve to be protected.
If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?