Human Rights Violation Quotes

“If A Tree Falls (Sonnet)

If a tree falls in the forest, but
nobody hears it, did it really fall!

If children are bombed to death,
but it's omitted from the news,
did the children really die!

If people are massacred by law,
but it's not on Netflix,
is it really a genocide!

If democracy is dismantled piece by piece,
but by government decree,
is it really illegal!

If the world is burnt to cinders,
but the privileged castles stay intact,
is the world really burning!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Post-apocalyptic world will never unfold like in the movies, the post-apocalyptic world already exists, may be not for you, as you're born on the lucky side of privilege - but that world of drought, flood, famine, plague and persecution already exists - ten steps from the door of the privileged.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy,
either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist.
Either you hold your mouth, mind and backbone,
or be jailed as an anarchist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Netflix and Genocide (Sonnet)

Post-apocalyptic world will
never unfold like in the movies,
the post-apocalyptic world already
exists, may be not for you, as you're
born on the lucky side of privilege -

but that world of drought, flood, famine,
plague and persecution already exists -
the post-apocalyptic world is now,
ten steps from the door of the privileged.

Privilege defines whether
it's a post-apocalyptic world -
step outside the castle,
and apocalypse is everywhere.

Or you just Netflix and chill,
while human communities crumble!
Apes binge-watch the occupation,
deportation and genocide,
aloof from their smart-castle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“All prejudice comes with a flag, all discrimination comes with a badge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“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

“Some say secularism is in their blood, some say liberty, all the while being the posterboys of persecution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“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

“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

“I used to think I’m a human behavior expert, but more and more I’m beginning to realize, I’m just a wildlife expert, because the core horrors that torment society are caused not by human behavior, but by the animal within the humans. Prejudice, dogma, ultraindividualism, nationalism, fascism, fundamentalism, these are not problems of human behavior, these are classic cases of animal nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I used to think I’m a human behavior expert, but more and more I’m beginning to realize, I’m just a wildlife expert, because the core horrors that torment society are caused not by human behavior, but by the animal within the humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“We live in a world built on colonial atrocity, where exploitation is advancement and genocide is genesis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm not a gospel, I'm the emergency.
I'm not a sermon, I'm the summon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Not free at last, but free at first - be the first to question inhuman convention, be the first to question unjust law, be the first to question cruel logic, be the first to question a bigoted population.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“When The Dervish Burns (Excerpt)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Declaration of Independence,
this time written by human (2510)

In the course of human happenings,
whenever intolerance gets legislated,
and persecution becomes national policy,
it's duty of the living to abolish such order,
and boot out the monkey masters of malice.

We the humans, with more than two brain cells,
and proud carriers of a beating heart,
do solemnly swear upon our upright backbone,
we shall not walk away when a human is hurt.

ICE or Gestapo, no matter the uniform,
we tolerate no monkeys do harm -
we are citizens of the mountaintop,
never again we're regressing to the jungle.

Thus speaks the Declaration of Independence,
this time voiced by human, for the humans.
No king, no pilgrim, is our master no more -
Earth is our address, integration, our tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“ICE or Gestapo, no matter the uniform,
we tolerate no monkeys do harm -
No king, no pilgrim, is our master no more -
Earth is our address, integration, our tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Write like time's a fragile toy,
like galaxies sit in your palm -
roar with justice, rain with joy,
awaken chaos into calm!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Why You Must Speak Your Name
(Naskaristana 2593)

You know why I have to mention my name
over and over, in as many places as I can,
even though the name is not important -
it's because my name represents every people
ever trampled beneath the feet by the
half-educated apes out to spread "civilization" -

my name represents the congolese,
my name represents the palestinians,
my name represents the sikhs,
my name represents the muslims,
my name represents each and every human being
incarcerated for merely existing.

So I say again, the name is not important,
yet you must speak your name,
because every time a human speaks their name,
an ape loses their footing in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The name is not important, yet you must speak your name, because every time a human speaks their name, an ape loses their footing in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Earthright Anthem (Sonnet 2613-2615)

The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.

No badge can baptize brutality,
no holy water can bleach blood stains -
the land remembers the salt of tears
of every people ever slain.

Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.

When erasure becomes ape religion,
mutiny becomes human right.
Stars that burn for others,
wither in body, but live in light.

From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.

Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.

Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.

Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented, on a planet built on loot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every people ever wronged are our people,”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The dehumanized don't need to be humanized, they are already human, it's the dehumanizers that need to be humanized, because it's the animals that need to become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every wall they built on prejudice, tear it down, and dance on it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When there is no real enemy to find, nationalism invents make believe enemies, usually in the shape of internal minorities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Imagine, what would happen to the planet's pointless minority of white fanatics, if every persecuted, occupied, dehumanized, exploited, appropriated, abducted, demoralized community lost their conscience!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Where law fails order, there my justice begins.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop