Human Rights Poetry Quotes

“World Domination (A Satirical Sonnet)

White people's pain is pain,
Everybody else's is just discomfort.
That is why you peddle Hitler,
As such a monster.
You don't hate Hitler because,
He wanted to dominate the world,
You hate Hitler because he wanted,
To dominate everybody, including the whites.
The world is but heirloom to the whites,
All other claims are null and void!
Loot like a pommy, rebel like an insurrectionist,
Trod on whoever, just not the fellow white!
World domination is the ultimate white privilege.
Threat to white welfare is the ultimate
human rights infringement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“If the bible comes and peddles phobia,
I'll burn such bible to ashes.
If the koran comes and peddles violence,
I'll tear up such koran to pieces.

If the vedas come and peddle superstition,
I'll crush such filth to pulp with my foot.
If the constitution comes and peddles war,
As concerned parent I'll grab their makers,
And spank out all their dormant good.

Even if some two-bit God comes,
And peddles division,
I'll divide him so many times,
Even to his apostles,
He'll bear no recognition.

And a little word of advise to those,
Priming their guns, swords and tridents.
When a volcano erupts,
Insects are supposed to run,
Not hide behind bows, arrows and bibles.

Brain is mightier than bullets,
Heart is mightier than the homunculus.
When a 3 pound brain falls on bigoted bugs,
There is no running, only burning to cinders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“No crown, no constitution, no scripture, is higher than the people. The moment they claim supreme rule, it is time for the amantes to assemble.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Bless Me With Bullets (The Sonnet)

Just once let me die for the people,
Then I can live in peace.
Once I am wiped out for the world,
Then I can have my long awaited sleep.
Only when a bunch of bravehearts are sleepless,
Can the rest of humanity sleep in peace.
Only when a bunch of reformers are peaceless,
Will all the inequalities be appeased.
To hell with personal happiness!
To hell with the notion of personal and social!
There is no person, there is no planet,
Till the troubles of the world feel super personal.
Come all ye offended, charge at me
with your entire arsenal.
I won't resist, come and bless me,
with your bullets of denial.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Radioactive Mind (The Sonnet)

In front of the radioactivity of mind,
Radioactivity of matter turns dim.
In front of the joules of a just heart,
A billion ohms of hate become nil.
Hate is the question,
Heart is the answer.
Hate is the sickness,
Heart is the cure.
Prejudice is the ailment,
Piety is the cure.
What is piety you ask!
Nothing but kindness more pure.
Kindness is divinity, kindness is sanity.
Wasting it to codify life is sheer stupidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Civil Liberty (The Sonnet)

Policy is not the precursor to civil liberty,
Civic duty is the precursor to civil liberty.
If there is no civic duty, there is no civil liberty,
If there is no civic duty, civilians are but catastrophe.
Contrary to unwritten political law of abuse,
Civilians are not the doormats of democracy.
Civilians are the doors, civilians are the buildings,
Civilians are the whole of the social anatomy.
Problem is, it's more convenient to live life as doormat,
Than take responsibility and turn politicians obsolete.
The war-mongers know this uncivilized tenet of the apes,
Hence they can turn living beings into moronic nationalist.
So I repeat, civic duty is the alpha and omega of civil liberty.
Till we realize this, there is no peace, justice and equality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“I'm Above The Law (The Sonnet)

Yes, I am above the law,
So is every single world builder.
It's only the apes without brain who,
Are tamed by the medieval lawmaker.
If you are to be a civilized being,
It is your duty to rise above the law.
If you can't tell right from wrong,
It is common sense you lack, not law.
It is nothing but a juvenile democracy,
That is founded on spineless law-abidance.
Civilized democracy instills accountability,
What it doesn't demand is boneheaded obedience.
You have a heart, brain and spine, why not use them!
Stand up o citizen justice, and keep the law as servant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Just Need to Be Human (The Sonnet)

You don't need to be an arab to stand by
the muslims, you just need to be human.
You don't need to be an immigrant to stand up
against hate crime, you just need to be human.
You don't need to be a woman to stand up
to misogyny, you just need to be human.
You don't need to be a queer to stand up
to phobia, you just need to be human.
You don't need to be colored to defy
discrimination, you just need humanity.
You just need to be not stupid enough,
to confuse diversity with pathology.
Every person we meet is our neighbor.
We cannot exist as human beings,
till we wipe each other's tears.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Let no ancestor bind your identity behind borders, let no heritage be a hindrance to your humanity. If a language or culture makes you squeamish or afraid, it means you gotta wash your heart with soap and sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Heal, don't hate - love, don't loath,
Every soul alive is a soul wounded.
Human history is a history of hate,
Isn't it time to dump all that torment!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Sonnet 1143

Give me some sunshine,
Give me some rain!
Why the hell am I asking you,
When I'm the steward of my own reign!

Ship of society is sinking,
O Young and Bold, now hail the helm!
Come to the rescue of those lost at sea,
To hell with the nonsense of shame and fame!

My religion is to rescue the fallen,
My creed to care for the persecuted.
Faith, reason, nation, I heed none,
Obliterated in love heart is illuminated.

Shedding all fears both ragged and posh,
Let's go play in the courtyard of the cosmos!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 2

Just like every family needs a pillar,
Every generation needs a rock.
All may sprinkle salt on each other's wounds,
You for one, be the ointment to the epoch.
Be the foundation stone to civilization,
Be the walking measure of human character.
You are the definition of sapience,
You are the very definer.
Let no law define your duty,
Let no scripture determine goodness.
Let no ancestor imprison your identity,
Expand, explore and usher into sentience.
You are the illusion, you are the truth.
When evil hangs heavy, you gotta blow your fuse.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Naskaristan, The Sonnet

Where no one cries of hunger,
For neighbor comes before netflix,
No one needs bulletproof backpacks,
For children come before profits,

Where women can pursue their dreams,
Without being castrated by masculinity,
Where a mother can feed her child,
Without attracting prehistoric insecurity,

Where love isn't chained to archaic texts,
For reform triumphs over rigidity,
Where all colors make the rainbow of life,
For life isn't chained to no ideology,

Where reason outshines all superstition,
Heartland beyond hateland is Naskaristan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect