Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
If you voted for a man who said "Grab em by the pussy," you have zero room to claim to protect anyone in bathrooms.
Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.
If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.
Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.
Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.
Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.
It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it’s racism. It’s not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it’s sexism. And it’s ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.
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.
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.
Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.
Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!