Prejudice Intolerance Diversity Quotes

“Expansion or Extinction

Identity is selfishness, heritage is selfishness, culture is selfishness, that is, the way these constructs have been sustained in society all this time.

All this time things have been going on like this - my identity versus all others - my heritage versus all others - my culture versus all others. And such behavior has only fostered a paradigm of division.

This must change - from division to unison. And how will it happen? We gotta perform a complete overhaul of notions of identity, heritage and culture. We gotta turn each of them from a prison into a path. In simple terms, we gotta humanize them all - we gotta make them more about people than anything else - more about the people of the present and future than those of the past.

We gotta make them about life, not habits, beliefs and rituals. One may wonder, aren't habits, beliefs and rituals also life!

No they ain't - they are part of life, a microscopic part at that, but not life itself. So first and foremost, feel, think and walk past habits, beliefs and rituals, of your ancestors as well as your own.

Expansion, expansion, expansion - only way forward is expansion. If you are afraid that your ancestors would be offended at your expansion, then let me tell you this. It's better to have no ancestor than to have one offended at your expansion.

All our ancestors made this mistake. They were all against expansion. Make not the same mistake my friend. Expand yourself, and encourage the children towards further expansion. Encourage them to surpass you, instead of sentencing them to the prison of your own beliefs and notions.

Without expansion there ain't gonna be no earth left, that is, one fit for human existence. And to be honest, the day is not far when planet earth will be absolutely unfit for human existence, both psychologically and physically.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“You humanoids worry about your kids being pushed around by bullies, and rightfully so. But think about this: We had bona fide bulls at my school. Yea, monstrous creatures with huge torsos, gargantuan horns - and when they were pissed - gross stuff oozed out of their gigantic noses.”
― John J. Parrino, Prejudice and the Progeny: Six Lessons for Slaying Intolerance

“Aan de andere kant was ze enorm benieuwd hoe haar kinderen op mij zouden reageren. Kinderen hebben het direct door als er iets niet klopt, zei ze. Ze vertelde dat haar oudste zoontje altijd reageerde op mensen met een afwijkend uiterlijk, zoals 'een neger of een lilliputter in de supermarkt.”
― Thomas van der Meer, Welkom bij de club

“It is past time for us as a society to come together against prejudice toward any person or persons.”
― Germany Kent

“This body is a scrounger if it needs the state, a faker if it holds down a job.”
― Frances Ryan

“Even a flower cannot survive on last week's water, and you want the mind to survive on centuries old beliefs!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Take the beliefs of any fundamentalist, and replace all mentions of their particular religion with any other religion, and you won't be able to tell the difference. Why? Because fundamentalism changes only label from one religion to another, but the underlying prejudice, biases and bigotry remain the same. Because underneath every fundamentalism, there is the same old primitive, animal mind trying its darndest to defend the integrity of its personal mental universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was