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Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.
Love should never mean having to live in fear.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.
Greatness is not measured by the walls we build but by the bridges.
Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.
If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.
The greatest gift you can give the wicked is your inaction.
Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.
Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
When we hide racism under the guise of 'humor,' we insulate white racist privilege and make a mockery of civil rights.
When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.
If guns don't kill people, why do mass killers arm themselves with guns?
We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.
Talk without the support of action means nothing.
Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
Words not only reflect a person's thoughts and beliefs, but, through their use, can shape a person's values, beliefs, and actions, making them prejudiced without them even realizing it. That means it's not just the case that actions speak louder than words. It's also true, in this society rife with institutionalized discrimination, that results speak louder than intent.
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.
Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.
Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.
Saying gun control hurts our freedom is a false argument amounting to propaganda. Gun laws don't curtail freedom any more than speed limits or seat belts. You still get to drive your car and have guns, we're just trying to save lives as you do.
I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.
What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.
The world could use more love. Why deny it to others?
Resistance isn't enough. If we want change, we have to get out the vote.
People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.
When nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11, it was enough to create massive change in our society. Over ten times as many people die from guns each year. Where is the social change?
If I were to do nothing, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
Truth is not determined by the number of people telling it or willing to admit to it.
Standing behind predators makes prey of us all.
Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.
We cannot be a union of states if we fail to unite as people.
Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.
When we allow violence against some, we enable violence against all.
If the GOP truly cared about saving lives, they'd stop blocking gun violence research.
