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

“We cannot establish proper, healthy human integration, without first decolonizing the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Civilization is care over conquest, civilization is integration over isolation, civilization is belonging.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My territory is planet earth - humanity, my civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Kein Über, Kein Mensch
(Naskaristana 2781)

Kein Über, kein Mensch,
Ich bin divine madness -
proud heathen and responsible traitor,
not tall, not armed, just undaunted.

Divine by deed, not by decree,
courier of culture, not nationality -
loud enemy of the nationalist state,
with no dogcollar of brainless loyalty.

Infant cattle are branded with hot iron,
infant apes are branded with hot ideology -
vaccines may scar the skin, but fortify the body,
while nationalities only fracture our humanity.

Mainly because apes cannot fathom existence
of one community without demonizing another -
doesn't matter whether you're a global citizen,
just don't confuse domestication with tradition.

Kein Über, kein Mensch, kein Zarathustra -
braver than nuclear, I'm neurochemical warfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Braver than nuclear, I'm neurochemical warfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You matter because you exist, no identification, no justification needed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“My school is existence, not existentialism. No ism is sufficient, my home is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“What good to me are academic walls, what good to me are church ceilings! Mountains are my classroom, sky, my blackboard - nature is my canon, cosmos is my kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The culture I carry is integration, the tradition I carry is tolerance, the religion I carry is reformation - armed with a hundred billion nerve cells, here I stand Human, My Nation, Earthistan!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“There is no place for borders in consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“There is another side to the picture: it is the white community of Montgomery, long led or intimidated by a few extremists, that finally turned in disgust on the perpetrators of crime in the name of segregation. The change should not be exaggerated. The White Citizens Council is still active. Confessed bombers still win their freedom in the courts. And opposition to integration is still the rule. Yet by the end of the bus struggle it was clear that the vast majority of Montgomery's whites preferred peace and law to the excesses performed in the name of segregation. And even though the many saw segregation as right because it was the tradition, there were always the courageous few who saw the injustice in segregation and fought against it side by side with the Negroes.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

“Earth is our address, integration, our tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“It all started with a promise - Liberty is my religion, Humans are my God; what took to paper as a penniless dream, ignited the planet with culture of integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Naskar Controversy (Sonnet 2525)

Yes, Naskar is a controversial figure,
not because I sell antivaxx nonsense,
not because I sell eugenics nonsense,
not because I sell patriotic garbage,
not because I sell newage garbage, in fact,
these are the very germs my life disinfects -

I am controversial because my backbone
doesn't seek validation from no institution,
either faith based or intellectual -

I am controversial because the planet of apes
cannot quite figure out the sectarian membership
of my post-discipline, post-dogma, post-cultural,
post-national, post-fanatic, post-algorithmic mind -
and anything that apes cannot understand, apes mistrust,
not just apes of ritual, but also apes of intellect.

I am controversial because I ask for tolerance,
I am controversial because I'm integration incarnate,
I am controversial because I call for humanity,
at the expense of both faith and facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am controversial because I ask for tolerance, I am controversial because I'm integration incarnate, I am controversial because I call for humanity, at the expense of both faith and facts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Why is it, I asked myself, that the whites who believe in integration are so often less eloquent, less positive in their testimony than the segregationists? It is still one of the tragedies of human history that the "children of darkness" are frequently more determined and zealous than the "children of light.”
― 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

“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

“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