Inclusion Quotes

“It is time for housing owner associations to move past old prejudices and prioritize making community life fully accessible and inclusive for individuals with disabilities.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“As an individual, as a person with the power to affect other people with your words, actions, and expressions every single day, you can give people who see the world differently the gift of accepting who and how they are.”
― Jolene Stockman, Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

“Most potent medicine we have is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“It is a duty, not a choice, for housing communities to ensure accessibility, enabling individuals with disabilities to engage fully and equally in every aspect of life in the community.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Accessibility in housing communities is an essential duty, not a negotiable option, for the complete and equitable inclusion of persons with disabilities in all walks of community life.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Housing associations must view accessibility not as an optional feature, but as an essential obligation to ensure that persons with disabilities have equal opportunities in every aspect of life in the community.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Housing owners' associations need to ensure that persons with disabilities can join in all social and cultural events in the community, just like everyone else by facilitating accessibility.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Imagine a community where everyone truly belongs. Housing owners' associations can make this a reality by ensuring that people with disabilities have full access to social and cultural activities within their communities.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“Housing owner associations must shed their deep-seated biases and focus their efforts on creating an accessible community where persons with disabilities can participate fully and equally.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“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

“The call to action for housing owner associations is clear: abandon ingrained discriminatory mindsets and commit to facilitating an environment where people with disabilities can enjoy full and equal participation in community activities.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“For a truly inclusive community, housing owner associations must confront and set aside their deep-rooted discriminatory views, focusing instead on enabling complete and equal participation for persons with disabilities in every facet of community life.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“The IP profession stands out as an ideal career path for persons with disabilities, offering not just independence and self-determination , paving the way for a respectable and rewarding livelihood.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“The Intellectual Property field provides great opportunities for persons with disabilities, providing the twin benefits of professional independence and the chance to thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment, leading to a dignified and rewarding career.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

“Where a human values a human, there flourishes civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“Divide and rule is the law of animals, Unite and integrate is law of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Neuro Navigator: A person who may not have a neurodivergent brain, but loves and empowers someone who does. See also: Unconditional love.”
― Jolene Stockman, Notes for Neuro Navigators: The Allies' Quick-Start Guide to Championing Neurodivergent Brains

“These contrasts were also meant to reflect the essential beauty and constant struggle of our democracy as expressed in our nation’s motto: e pluribus unum (out of many, one). We are a populace of individual “I’s” who have consented to come together as a “we.” The challenge has been to continuously question who is (or isn’t) included in that “we” and how to redefine and reimagine it.

Overall, we’ve managed to move toward a more inclusive understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each another. Historically, though, we have wavered and are currently at a crossroads: Are we going to advance toward a broader definition of “we” or will we retreat to a narrower one?”
― Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country

“You are the eyeway to illumination,
You are the spineway to invigoration.
You are the headway to inspiration,
You are the heartway to assimilation.”
― 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

“Light of inclusivity will wipe out tears,
All spell of heritage shall break apart.
Shatter the slumber of convenient coldness,
Burn up the hate in a monsoon of love!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“The only permanence we have is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Togetherness is the light,
Separateness is night.
Hand in hand at heart,
Enhanced by taintless trust,
We wake up to real civil sight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“There is no stranger, only neighbor. Everyone is family, no one is foreigner.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“From dust we're born,
In dust we're gone.
Cashes to ashes,
Bitcoins in trashes,
Division is nefarious,
Unity is dawn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Beyond tongue and tradition,
Beyond king and nation,
Beyond ignorance and intolerance,
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
There's a valley of love and laughter.
Come someday, I shall meet you there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization 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

“Only a multicultural polyglot,
who has wiped out borders from heart,
rising above both intellect and faith,
can sense the immenseness of my work.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“What is Naskar (The Sonnet)

Naskar is a culture unto themselves,
Naskar is a nation unto themselves.
Naskar is a planet unto themselves,
Naskar is a paradigm unto themselves.

Naskar culture is integration,
Naskar nation is world nation.
Naskar planet is borderless,
Naskar paradigm is undivision.

Naskar is not a he or she,
Naskar is the whole of humanity.
Naskar is neither east nor west,
Naskarosphere is conscious unity.

Naskar is just a lesser synonym,
The original name is Human Being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets