Hate Crime Quotes

“Those who practice intolerance as freedom, hate as holiness, conspiracy as wisdom, and prejudice as purity, are a lot of things, but not human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Time to Cancel 4th of July (Sonnet)

If it takes just one election to reverse
hundreds of years of social progress, then
that society never progressed in the first place.
There's no point in celebrating 4th of July,
when we're ever regressing to persecution days.

On the outside we've made tremendous strides,
we have been to the moon and back,
yet the glossiest of land reeks of lunacy,
when we nationalize prejudice as gallant.

America is abomination of everything free and brave,
where persecution is law, intolerance is religion.
To overcome hate some day, we gotta stand human today;
Dream of the King is the Dream of Civilization.

We have no cause for celebration, if anything,
we gotta re-examine the legitimacy of 4th of July.
When boneheaded egomaniacs make a joke of liberty,
revolution is our first amendment, mutiny our right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“To overcome hate some day, we gotta stand human today.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Spare the toilet, spoil the floor. Spare the fascist, spoil the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When Convention is Contaminated:

Brain cannot survive the vacuum of space, mind cannot survive the vacuum of time - so the body produces spinal fluid for the brain to float, and the brain produces beliefs for the mind to survive. But while the immune system keeps the spinal fluid sterilized of infection without conscious intervention, brain does nothing to keep beliefs sterilized of prejudice, unless you make it a habit to question convention.

Choose to fight physical infection or not, your body will do it for you, but as for psychological contaminations, you have to fight them yourself - the faculties are already carved in your brain circuits, but you have to be willing to use them, defying the comforting fantasies of convention, that's how an ape evolves into human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“All Awake to Humanity (Sonnet 2050)

Science ought to be at the forefront
of calling and curing mindlessness,
not an olympian god aloof on pedestal
distantly passing judgment, like
hallucinations through bushes.

Faith ought to be at the forefront
of calling out persecution and malice,
rather than seeking justification in
dead books, like brainless primates.

Selma to Montgomery, from river to the sea,
We stand guard, with no weapon but our dignity.
Reason is our ark, love is our compass -
Colored, White, Muslim and otherwise, together
we shall overcome - All Awake to Humanity!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Let there be gods - not one, not three, but billions upon billions - let each human be a god unto themselves - without fear, without prejudice - without superstition, without cynicism - let each mind rise triumphant over malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Be a think tank of life,
not a septic tank of prejudice.
Stand messenger, stand human,
not a brainless host to malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Bound to no creed or clan,
human kneels before no stone -
every place where hate looms,
human sings in flesh and bone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I have no problem with you shouting, that your religion is the only true religion, at most, I'll ignore you like a raving lunatic - but the moment you start persecuting others, your lunacy becomes a medical emergency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“It’s not a free country, it’s a free jungle, where predators roam free abusing the marginalized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I never play the victim card, because to play the victim one would have to feel inferior somehow - which I don't - I am not inferior to anyone, quite the contrary, I am one of the most spectacular specimens of whole human that ever walked the earth - which is why, whenever I face derogatory remarks, my immediate response is not that of an offended minority, but that of a concerned parent disappointed at their child's misdemeanor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I don't plea, I execute (Sonnet 2212)

I never play the victim card,
because to play the victim one would
have to feel inferior somehow - which I don't -
I am not inferior to anyone, quite the contrary,

I am one of the most spectacular specimens
of whole human that ever walked the earth -
which is why, whenever I face derogatory remarks,
my immediate response is not that of an offended
minority, but that of a concerned parent
disappointed at their child's misdemeanor.

I don't beg for equality, I establish equality.
I don't plea for mercy, I execute justice.
Millennia yet for courts to catch up to my truth;
I don't outsource, I am the source of holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The terrorists you call pilgrims, did not immigrate, they invaded, pillaged and plundered a continent, they even plagiarized its name into a symbol of atrocity and violation, just like the nazis heisted a holy symbol from the east, and turned the sacred Swastika into the global icon of hate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Pilgrims and Nazis (Sonnet 2220)

The terrorists you call pilgrims,
did not immigrate, they invaded,
pillaged and plundered a continent,
they even plagiarized its name into
a symbol of atrocity and violation,

just like the nazis heisted
a holy symbol from the east,
and turned the sacred Swastika
into the global icon of hate.

History books are all messed up,
none teaches the history of humans -
world history was written by animals,
to maintain their narrative unchallenged.

The West broke the world, now
the human race gotta resurrect the world,
offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike -
but we can do nothing at all,
till we decolonize our mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Brain cannot survive the vacuum of space, mind cannot survive the vacuum of time - so the body produces spinal fluid for the brain to float, and the brain produces beliefs for the mind to survive. But while the immune system keeps the spinal fluid sterilized of infection without conscious intervention, brain does nothing to keep beliefs sterilized of prejudice, unless you make it a habit to question convention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“True religion cannot thrive in hate, what thrives in hate, cannot be religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Either love outlasts hate or extinction outruns evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Homing Pigeon (Sonnet 2311)

I'm a homing pigeon,
and I'm homing in on integration -
and since there is no such thing,
I'm building my homeworld person by person.

I'll never force you to be inclusive,
if you do harm, I'll restrain you,
but I'll never resort to weapons -
moreover, I'll never kill for inclusion,

I'll simply beg, on my knees,
I'll beg till I drop dead -
because I have nothing to lose,
no reputation, no image, no class -

either love outlasts hate
or extinction outruns evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Neuronigger (Sonnet 2316)

Call me pilgrim or call me beggar,
you be my Shams, I, your Mevlana.
Call me neuro or call me nigger,
to some I'm Valium, to others Viagra.

Without salt from the South of Earth,
world philosophy, world science,
world poetry, all collapse into dust.

Wipe the south from history,
you wipe out culture and civilization,
wipe the north, you spare the planet
the most uncivilized of criminals.

Yet, holocaust for holocaust
leaves humanity in plaster cast;
human defends human,
dreams this Neuronigger.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Every day that you choose inclusivity over segregation, you actively redirect evolution from a human-looking species to human species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Yalla Ciao (Divine Melody, S.2450)

What have you done oh,
tonto hermano,
mountain of lies after lies
after lies, lies, lies!

What have you done oh,
gringo hermano,
ripped off el mundo from its core.

You don't need AI,
you don't need rockets,
oh brother ciao, yalla ciao,
yalla ciao, ciao, ciao!

Bedlam is empty,
loonies rule government,
now just go call your medico!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Nothing's easier than being an ape: obey the tribal chief, practice the state-approved religion, and never love a neighbor that your monkey king disapproves of - but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone, three fundamental forces which invoke the very ruin of political power, for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear, and elevate them to human consciousness, which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“When a 10 ounce heart drops on a racist in its complete wholeness, the very idea of race is blown out of existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The I-less Continuum (Sonnet 2456)

When a 3 pound brain drops on
a bigot in its complete vastness,
bigotry don't just blush,
it's blasted to ashes.

When a 10 ounce heart drops on
a racist in its complete wholeness,
the very idea of race
is blown out of existence.

Neurons are the prophets of reality,
consciousness is the scripture.
I don't see the turn of the universe,
I cause the universe to turn.

Beyond culture, religion and nation,
there's my homeland called human -
beyond faith, intellect, reason and ritual,
existence blooms in I-less continuum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“No matter what the apes want you to believe, it's not weakness to abandon suspicion, it's not weakness to discard judgment, it's not weakness to practice empathy, it's not weakness to be considerate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Why (Sonnet 2493)

Why is it that, for one religion to be true,
all other religions have to be false!
Why is it that, for one culture to find glory,
all other cultures have to be dehumanized!

Why is it that, for one people to prosper,
another people have to be exploited!
Why is it that, to conceive a brave new nation,
the landmass has to be sterilized of the natives!

Why is it that, for one nation to be strong,
all other citizens have to be tagged as enemy!
Why is it that, for one kind of love to flourish,
love's myriad spectrum gets banished to the closet!

Why is it that, for one community to flourish,
rest of humankind must be choked against the wall!
Why is it that, for the state to come into power,
the citizens must be brainwashed into vegetable!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The rarest humans are the ones who stand before hate and still choose love.”
― Marion Bekoe

“People don't qualify as people when they deny humanity to others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Show me love, I’ll respond with a quiet smile – throw me hate, I’ll metabolize it and rewrite your history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock