Inclusion Quotes

“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
― Shirley Chisholm

“The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life…We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America…”
― Mary Pipher

“Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.

In Scripture, Jesus is in a house so packed that no one can come through the door anymore. So the people open the roof and lower this paralytic down through it, so Jesus can heal him. The focus of the story is, understandably, the healing of the paralytic. But there is something more significant than that happening here. They're ripping the roof off the place, and those outside are being let in.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded. ”
― Reuben Abel

“Kindness grows fastest in hearts that understand struggle.”
― Sasha Dietze

“Real progress doesn’t leave people behind. If it does, it isn’t progress—it’s a race to nowhere.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Storytelling isn’t a luxury. It’s how we decide who gets to be human.”
― Lawrence Nault

“I'm not a nerd, I'm the manufacturing plant of humanitarian nerds, whose nationality is humanity, whose worship is reason, whose madness is world uplift, whose culture is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“What good is ape tradition and validation, when time is my home, integration, my reality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I have no allegiance to any religious institution, or to any academic institution, I don't even have allegiance to the truth, truth can go to hell for all I care - I only care about integration - absolute, indivisible, unbending, unflinching spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Time is my home, integration, my reality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm not a citizen of the planet,
I'm the Engine of Earth Society.
I'm bound by no constitution,
I'm the Constitution of Humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I am the warfare, and the rewriting of civilization started decades ago, when I made slave out of the most tyrant language on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“My brain is the planet’s largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Civilization is care over conquest, civilization is integration over isolation, civilization is belonging.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Cultural differences are not genetic, they're environmental.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You matter because you exist, no identification, no justification needed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Earth is our address, integration, our tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“One drop of kindness contains the cosmos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Only medicine we have is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You don’t learn inclusivity, you unlearn the prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Para afrontar la era de la inteligencia artificial con equidad, debemos corregir el hecho de que, en el mundo, el futuro de algunos sea el pasado de otros.”
― F.C. Quiles

“Separately, we grow in height - together, we grow in life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Roots watered with love
do not envy each other,
roots drowned in fear
cannot stand each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My habit is oneness,
my nature is expansion.
Shared space is safe space,
all else is extinction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“[Today's Songs]

They ask me
what I make
of the songs of today.
And I answer:
I have never joined
the choir of those who say,
"nothing could be better than what once was."
Yet I cannot help noticing
that modern songs
grow shorter,
noisier,
more shrill,
day after day.
And I find myself wondering:
might this be the voice
of a generation worn thin,
crying out at the world
that it can no longer bear
the silence
of mute demons
who look away
from its rights?
And could the ignorance
that surrounds us now,
the ignorance we hear
and see each day,
be nothing more
than the offspring
of neglect
and a frightening absence
of belonging?

11 September 2023”
― Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

“[Colors]

Once, our identity cards
described our skin
as the color of wheat.
Elsewhere, peoples' complexions
were compared
to olives
and chocolate.
There are eyes
the color of honey,
or green pistachios,
and hair
the color of chestnuts.
All these names
remind us
that we are born of nature
and among its most beautiful gifts.
Yet the racist West
insists on shrinking humanity,
painting it
in politicized colors
where only white
is deemed to matter.
And all other colors
become synonyms
for no one
and nothing,
until the world is reduced
to a field of snow,
or a blank white page,
and nothing more.

31 October 2023”
― Louis Yako, سرطان في كل مكان [Cancer Everywhere]

“I don't need a religious occasion to feel holy, every day inhabited by a human is sacred, every day is a celebration of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human