Activist Quotes

“Human I stand, from the river to the sea, I won't let no wildlife normalize inhumanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“We need more activists. We need more awareness.”
― George W. Bush Institute, We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope

“Stay Woke, Stay Human (Sonnet)

BLACK is Brave, black is Leaderly,
Adventurous, Conscientious and KINGly.
LATINO means Loud, Loving And Tenacious,
latino means Ingenious in Obscurity.

WOMAN is Wonder Obstinate, woman is
Miracle Awake, and Nature-incarnate.
PRIDE means Passionate and Resilient,
Indefatigably Daring in Endearment.

MUSLIM is Merciful, muslim is Unbending,
Sincere and Lively, Insightfully Magnetic.
ASIAN means Amiable, asian means Strong,
Inquisitive, Ambitious and Neighborly.

Hateless, Undivided, Mindful And
Neurodiverse - that's HUMAN.
Mind carries its own detergent,
stay woke and stay human!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“You are the God, you are the King,
you are Queen Mother of the living.
Yours is not to pamper puritanical pests,
yours is to rise and roar, o citizen of dream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Revolution is when character expands a hundred folds, and love is placed at the altar of mind - when nothing in the world is so important, as the good of humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Within me there's a world where consciousness, rights, oneness are the same.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Nationalism is cannibalism,
Fundamentalism is cannibalism,
Colonialism is cannibalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Live as a lamp, not a lamb.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Every generation needs a Naskar, and the Naskar of your generation is you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“You know what is the real god particle? You are. Every person who refuses to entertain division and discrimination in any form, is the practicing god particle of society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Awake, arise, adopt the world!
Give me brains, and give me heart.
Whenever fear and fanaticism take hold,
from amongst you will rise a Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“What burns the bigots most is an unbending flame of inclusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“What the world needs is character,
alive enough to value first the welfare of
the living over the last wishes of the dead,
human enough to identify as human, beyond
the gaslighting spell of prejudiced fairytales.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“The only way to end prejudice from the world is to stare it right into the eyes and speak love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla is my empire - I am Visvaviking!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“When one Naskar dies, a thousand Naskars will rise up to take the place. They will stand up wherever there is bigotry, wherever there is discrimination, injustice and inequality, they will stand up wherever there is oppression, segregation and crisis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Give me a pen, I'll give you peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“One pen can defeat a thousand guns, that's why books get banned, not guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Prejudice is plunder,
Biases are blunder.
Hate wreaks havoc,
when hearts are asunder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Awake, arise, oye Hazrat-e-Humanity!
Put aside doctrines, prioritize people.
To hell with honoring cockups as courage,
every generation must wield their chisel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I don't approve of mob rule, but when the people blow their top, billionaires become bum within days, and presidents become tramp.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Unwrite Me, You Cannot (Sonnet 1949)

I've written my life on the fabric of time,
no matter how much you try, you cannot unwrite me.
My childhood friends are now parents to children,
while I stand alone as the keeper of humanity.

Even the woman I once dreamt a life with, is now
a mother, yet my struggle continues for eternity.
May they all have a full and flourishing life,
but mine is to die as the lampbearer of liberty.

I took the road less travelled, of my own accord,
so the marginalized could have some tranquility.
There's nothing groundbreaking in a life of comfort,
we break ground by being antidote to animosity.

I've written my life on the fabric of time,
try all you like, unwrite me, you cannot.
You can pin me to the ground or on the wall,
but unsee, unhear, unwrite me, you cannot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“If protest does not reach the people it claims to serve, then it is not protest – it is spectacle. And in the end, who does that serve?”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“A protest should be undeniable. It should not ask the oppressed to become scholars of your rhetoric. It should not demand a prerequisite reading list before it makes sense. A protest is not a lecture series; it is an eruption, a call, a demand. It is a truth so raw that even a passerby, even a child, even the most disengaged person in the crowd should be able to hear it and know, in their gut, what is being said.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Servant of the people is samurai sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“This prehistoric world has an instinctual affinity to black and white concepts – to binary concepts – and a gigantic blind spot for grey areas. Justice is too grand an exercise to be contained by the primitive dualistic nonsense of violence and nonviolence.

Let me put this into perspective. Bullets are an act of violence, silence is an act of nonviolence – but there is a third option – the option of the slipper. Slippers are more effective in fighting bugs, than bullets – bullets make martyr of the bugs, slippers put them in their place. When the slippers of a nation’s civilians combine, even the mightiest of tyrant is bound to fall – be it a state head, court judge or law enforcement officer.

Whenever a bunch of bugs turn the courts into a cradle of animal masculinity – whenever a bunch of bugs turn the parliament into a cradle of fundamentalism and bigotry – whenever a bunch of bugs turn the police stations into a cradle of badge-bearing barbarism – grab hold of that household bug-repellent you wear on your feet, and put them to some good, wholesome use. Treat the corrupt and bigoted like your children, and do with them as you would your own child when they go astray.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Way of The Slipper (Bug-Repellent Sonnet)

This prehistoric world has an instinctual
affinity to black and white, binary concepts.
Justice is too grand an exercise to be contained
by the binary nonsense of violence and nonviolence.

Bullets are an act of violence, silence
is an act of bookish nonviolence – but there
is a third option – the way of the slipper.
Slippers are more effective in fighting bugs,
than bullets - slippers strip the bugs of
power, while bullets make them martyr.

With all your slippers combined,
the mightiest of tyrant is bound to fall,
be it a state head, court judge or copper,
or oligarchs rendering democracy into jungle.

When people blow their top, billionaires
become bum, and presidents turn tramp.
Fetch the household bug-repellent from
under your feet, and treat the corrupt
and bigoted like your offspring gone bad.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Give me a pen, I'll give you peace. One pen can defeat a thousand guns, that's why books get banned, not guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Colonials go home, not to England or Europe, but straight to the jungle!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience