Discrimination Quotes

“. . . There are many type of humans. Look here.” She steeples her hands and puts her chin on top of it. “On top is white man. White man culture, very good.” She slides her chin down to her wrist. “Second comes Yellow man culture. Yellow also good.” She lifts her head and serves me a pitiful glance. “Sorry to tell you, Kumar. Other species comes only below.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

“Stay docile unless otherwise called for,
Break out as dinosaur when situation demands.
When serving and learning make self nonexistent,
When facing bigots do your narcissistic dance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“In the world of data, women must be mythical creatures. That's the only explanation for why we're so often left out.”
― Anubha Saxena

“The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized group, are dehumanized and oppressed by being reduced to a single, devalued trait; the path to justice must be driven by the rehabilitation of that characteristic.”
― Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

“Culture supreme is inclusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Racism wont end. When the elders or parents lie to their children about other races to extend the hate.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Each heart is a shelter for another,
Each life is sanctuary for another.
Blasting all traditions of divide
into cinders with knowledge-dynamite,
we shall emerge as each other's keeper.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Housing owner associations need to put aside long-held discriminatory attitudes and concentrate on ensuring that persons with disabilities have equal opportunities to engage in all aspects of community life.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“You can train a mind to think, but you can't train a heart to love. Either you love or you don't, there's no training. Either you love or you don't, there's no thinking. Nobody thinks twice before hating, then why should you think twice before loving! Until love becomes instinctive as hate, nothing will change.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Until love becomes instinctive as hate, nothing will change.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“So long as there is exclusivity,
You can never emerge a human being.
Abandon divide, adopt but life;
Contain the world in your chest as kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Instincts of today evolved from
yesterday’s jungle life,
Tomorrow's instincts will rise
from today’s human life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“The Dark Cloud
Is the degradation minorities face because they want to be a dreamer and a doer
Is the sculpted destiny of someone who was born poor
Is the suffocating feeling you get when you are told to shut up
Is the tragic life story of a sick child who has cancer and who can’t even hold a cup”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“The Dark Cloud
Is the fear you must contain within yourself because of an attacker
Is the bank account that was destroyed because of a hacker
Is the reminder that some countries don’t allow women to be a rover
Is the removal of a group of people from the planet because evil has taken over”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“The Dark Cloud
Is the boiling blood of a victim that has lost everything and been consumed whole
Is the icy coldness of a world that has lost its conscience and soul
Is the pathetic mistreatment that haters want to make sure will stay
Is the infinite loop that governments like to encourage and to play”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“The Dark Cloud
Is the luxury brand that seeks brand ambassadors while it convinces you that you’re plain
Is the thunderstorm that wants you to experience its rain
Is the discrimination that destroys everything that is good
Is the trophy wife that learned how to make it in the hood”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“One moment of love is time eternal,
100 years of hate are but ghost of wild past.
One rebellion of love is destiny in making,
100 rituals of hate are just monkeys' mass.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Tears speak the same tongue
wherever they are shed.
Smiles speak the same tongue
wherever they are cracked.

Neither tear nor smile
discriminates between mind and mind,
then why do you encourage division,
why should mind be separate from mind!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Not everyone has to get along, or can be expected to show respect to one another, for we differ in how we would like to be treated. Misunderstanding is inevitable.”
― E. L. Parfitt, A Gypsy's Curse

“Assimilate all, alienate none.
Be the unbent explorer of illumination.
Be the pilgrim of living piety,
Celestial passenger you, go find a mirror!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Assimilate all, alienate none.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 5

Our whole life we're taught to live behind the veil,
It is forbidden to even dream of removing it.
To really seal the deal society calls this tradition,
So that we feel guilty if we cross our ancestral limit.
This is how habits are proudly passed on as heritage,
And bigotry as the highest form of enlightenment.
Thus, integration is deemed as the ultimate treachery,
And peace remains a matter of armchair amusement.
If you are to choose between tradition and humanity,
I say, treat your ancestors as children not sage.
Those who pass on division and discrimination,
Deserve neither seriousness nor allegiance.
Truth is not the journey from one veil to another.
Truth involves peeling the veil one layer after another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“The EEOC's promise to "prevent unlawful employment discrimination" remains gravely overdue. The needed changes to make government a "model employer" the EEOC refuses to pursue. To lift our communities from the depth of inequity, we must use our collective voices and #ExposeEEOC”
― Tanya Ward Jordan

“Diversity is an act of nature,
Inclusion is an act of mind.
Diversity is the presence of light,
Inclusion is the celebration of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Diversity is the presence of light, Inclusion is the celebration of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Let neither politicians nor ancestors
contaminate your senses with fear.
Modern sapiens must be modern enough to
not succumb to the army of ancient monsters.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Prejudice is just the symptom, of a mind existentially constipated.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“United we are heroes,
divided we are ashes.
Inclusive we are alive,
exclusive we are dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“There is light beyond the wall, there is sky beyond the ceiling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse to every fundamentalist institution in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets