Abhijit Naskar
803 quotes
"The black, the white, the brown, the red, the yellow, the hetero, the homo, the trans, the poor, the rich, the literate, the illiterate, the weak, the strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you all with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity."
"Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God."
"Black lives matter is not a black people's movement - metoo is not a women's movement - pride is not a gay people's movement - it's all humanity's movement - a movement for being accepted as humans by the humans."
"Justice doesn't mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice."
"Strength used for oppression is violence, strength used for defending the weak is justice."
"I looked into the eyes of racism, all I found was insecurity."
"Whoever controls the narrative, controls the people."
"The human brain has not evolved to perceive reality, it has evolved to create an illusion of reality. That's why an exciting lie gains more attention than a boring truth."
"Festivals are occasions to empower ourselves in the course of humanity - they are the occasions to rekindle the promise of humanity in our heart - the promise that we keep forgetting in the cacophony of manmade labels."
"Christmas isn’t about the decorations, It’s about compassion. Hanukkah isn’t about the sufganiyot, It’s about amalgamation. Ramadan isn’t about the feast, It’s about affection. Diwali isn't about the lights, It's about ascension."
"A true healer is not the one with magical powers, but the one who does everything in their power to help those in need."
"If we don't learn to break bread with each other, there'll come a day when none of us will have any bread to break."
"Acceptance is simply love in practice. When you love, you accept, when you lack love, you judge."
"Adjusting to inhumanity is an inhumanity itself."
"If an act of inhumanity goes unchallenged in your presence, then you have no right to call yourself human."
"By belittling others we only show how little and shallow we are."
"The greatest threat to the world is not any specific faith, for faith is nature's anti-dote to misery. The greatest threat to the world is intolerance, regardless of its religious, non-religious, political or intellectual background."
"My world, my responsibility."
"The beauty that we find in the world is a reflection of the beauty inside of us."
"Black doesn't mean dangerous, white doesn't mean trash, brown doesn't mean smuggler, muslim doesn't mean terrorist, woman doesn't mean weak, and lgbt doesn't mean sick. These are the fundamentals that we must realize if we are to build a just and humane society."
"Spare the biases, spoil the society."
"A world without 9/11 and January 6 begins with a heart without hate."
"To call genocide as self-defense, may be textbook diplomacy. Killing innocents to keep control, is an act of terrorist hypocrisy."
"Society must shed its dead traditions, like one sheds dead skin."
"Stagnated water breeds disease, when in motion it breathes life. Stagnated mind breeds segregation, when in motion it breaks divide."