Inclusion Quotes

“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
― Shirley Chisholm

“The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life…We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America…”
― Mary Pipher

“Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.

In Scripture, Jesus is in a house so packed that no one can come through the door anymore. So the people open the roof and lower this paralytic down through it, so Jesus can heal him. The focus of the story is, understandably, the healing of the paralytic. But there is something more significant than that happening here. They're ripping the roof off the place, and those outside are being let in.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded. ”
― Reuben Abel

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Neurodivergence doesn’t follow a straight line. It curves, overlaps, and branches into complex, beautiful configurations.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life

“The world doesn’t need you to shrink into its boxes. It needs you to stand tall in your unique brilliance and build bridges wide enough for others to walk beside you. Every time you show up as you are, ask for what you need, or celebrate your differences, you strengthen those bridges. With each person who crosses, the world grows richer with the creativity, insight, and joy that only comes when every mind has room to thrive.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life

“This book is for three groups of people: LGBTQIA+ folks who want practical tools to flourish, loved ones who want to offer support, and therapists who want to be more affirming and effective.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist’s Handbook for LGBTQ+: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for LGBTQ+ Individuals, Families, and Friends to Thrive with Authenticity

“Lack of inclusivity in society is not a bug, it's a feature of western eurocentric education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“When you are empty enough to hold others, you become whole for the first time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You don’t enter a culture, you disappear into it, be annihilated for others, and you come to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In English we say:
all roads lead to Rome.
In Naskarian we say:
all roads lead to people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In a segregated world human identities cancel each other, in an integrated world human identities enhance each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I don't describe, I embody -
I don't study a culture,
I disappear into the culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“A true friend looks beyond your web of sin and scars. A true friend says, 'come as you are.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Integration is divine by reason of poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“An American Prayer (Divine Comedy, Sonnet)

The other day I was having a chat with God,
she was telling me about the prayers flooding
in from America, all claiming extreme religiousness:

let our wall stand bold and tall,
fighting off all indigenous impurities,
let us paint it pitch black,
so it's too hot to be climbed by the savages;

now let us deport every last trace of sense,
let us deport all who defy our holy faith -
let us ban all blacks, whites, muslims alike,
whoever talks the nonsense of tolerance.

Then the Holy Mother sighed in despair, and said,
"and to think they are doing all that in my name!"
So I paused for a moment, then I grinned -
why not grant their wishes, then flood the entire Eden!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“True equality means enjoying the same freedoms; these are only achieved by acting and thinking in accordance with the will and inclusion of all the groups that make up our society.”
― F.C. Quiles

“Inclusion is the root of progress, and diversity is the first rule of abundance.”
― F.C. Quiles, Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures

“What good is ape tradition and validation, when time is my home, integration, my reality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Real progress doesn’t leave people behind. If it does, it isn’t progress—it’s a race to nowhere.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Storytelling isn’t a luxury. It’s how we decide who gets to be human.”
― Lawrence Nault

“I have no allegiance to any religious institution, or to any academic institution, I don't even have allegiance to the truth, truth can go to hell for all I care - I only care about integration - absolute, indivisible, unbending, unflinching spirit of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Time is my home, integration, my reality!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm not a nerd, I'm the manufacturing plant of humanitarian nerds, whose nationality is humanity, whose worship is reason, whose madness is world uplift, whose culture is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I'm not a citizen of the planet,
I'm the Engine of Earth Society.
I'm bound by no constitution,
I'm the Constitution of Humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Kindness grows fastest in hearts that understand struggle.”
― Sasha Dietze

“I am the warfare, and the rewriting of civilization started decades ago, when I made slave out of the most tyrant language on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“My brain is the planet’s largest organic manufacturing plant of multiculturalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock