Integration Quotes

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
― Richard Nixon

“He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”
― Malcolm X

“Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier so many of us find between the visible and the invisible world was just not there for him. It had become natural for Lewis to live ordinary life in a supernatural way.”
― Walter Hooper

“But the reactionaries were not in retreat. Many of them had predicted violence, and such predictions are always a conscious or unconscious invitation to action. When people, especially in public office, talk about bloodshed as a concomitant of integration, they stir and arouse the hoodlums to acts of destruction, and often work under cover to bring them about. In Montgomery several public officials had predicted violence, and violence there had to be if they were to save face.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“I had decided that after many months of struggling with my people for the goal of justice I should not sit back and watch, but should lead them back to the buses myself.... At 5:55 we walked toward the bus stop, the cameras shooting, the reporters bombarding us with questions. Soon the bus appeared; the door opened, and I stepped on. The bus driver greeted me with a cordial smile. As I put my fare in the box he said:

"I believe you are Reverend King, aren't you?"

I answered: "Yes I am."

"We are glad to have you this morning," he said.

I thanked him and took my seat, smiling now too. Abernathy, Nixon, and Smiley followed, with several reporters and television men behind them. Glenn Smiley sat next to me. So I rode the first integrated bus in Montgomery with a white minister, and a native Southerner, as my seatmate.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“The skies did not fall when integrated buses finally traveled the streets of Montgomery.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire of procreation," and they are "in agony when they take the infection of love, which begins with the desire of union."

Human beings are changing all the time—hair, flesh, bones, blood, and the whole body are always changing. Which is true not only of the body, but also of the soul, whose habits, tempers, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, fears, never remain the same.

Now in all this change, what binds the diversity together? It is eros, the power in us yearning for wholeness, the drive to give meaning and pattern to our variegation, and integration to counter our disintegrative trends. It is a dimension of experience which is psychological and emotional as well as biological. This is eros.”
― Rollo May, Love and Will

“The bus struggle in Montgomery, Alabama, is now history. As the integrated buses roll daily through the city they carry, along with their passengers, a meaning-crowded symbolism. Accord among the great majority of passengers is evidence of the basic good will of man for man and a portent of peace in the desegregated society to come. Occasional instances of discord among passengers are a reminder that in other areas of Montgomery life segregation yet obtains with all of its potential for group strife and personal conflict. Indeed, segregation is still a reality throughout the South.

Where do we go from here? Since the problem in Montgomery is merely symptomatic of the larger national problem, where do we go not only in Montgomery but all over the South and the nation? Forces maturing for years have given rise to the present crisis in race relations. What are these forces that have brought the crisis about? What will be the conclusion? Are we caught in a social and political impasse, or do we have at our disposal the creative resources to achieve the ideals of brotherhood and harmonious living?”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“This growing self-respect has inspired the Negro with a new determination to struggle and sacrifice until first-class citizenship becomes a reality. This is the true meaning of the Montgomery Story. One can never understand the bus protest in Montgomery without understanding that there is a new Negro in the South, with a new sense of dignity and destiny.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“When a subject people moves toward freedom, they are not creating a cleavage, but are revealing the cleavage which apologists of the old order have sought to conceal. It is not the movement for integration which is creating a cleavage in the United states today. The depth of the cleavage that existed, the true nature of which the moderates failed to see and make clear, is being revealed by the resistance to integration.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“I am the Imperishable Force of Oneness, I am Iftar, I am Noel, I am Jashn-e Justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am, for I am not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am empty, I contain eternity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Human walks, the soil revives,
forgotten streets all come to life -
with every step, with every beat,
Awake, Arise, and Breathe Complete!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments,
love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“No festival is sin for no one, there is no culture where we do not belong.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I have no genre, I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Pilgrim of the heart,
oneness in our vein -
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You haven't even started living a multicultural life, like a proper human being, and you're obsessing with the multiverse!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The actions aligned with the insight of interbeing reinforce the notion that we are all connected. They integrate, not separate. They are for all of humanity, not just my country. They encourage the emergence of wisdom in all of us, and they are not just for humanity but for all living beings.”
― Juan Pablo Quiñonez, Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage

“Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock