"Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood."
- DaShanne Stokes
"People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most."
"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."
"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."
"our country is poor but our hearts are rich"
- Adele Rickerby
"What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning."
- Steve Pemberton
"Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth."
- Jody Cantrell Dyer
"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."