Separatism Quotes

“Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Tanga Tanga: The conversation has always been about tribalism We need to change it"
Me: How?
TT: Let's talk about class! Hustler vs Dynasty.
Me: Separatists!”
― DON SANTO

“Hustler vs dynasty; Women vs men; straight vs crooked; white vs black; left vs right; youth vs old; are forms of separatist business enterprises I don't subscribe to. They drain your energy chasing what we can't change when we can be the best we wanna be.”
― DON SANTO

“Contrary moods of violence, withdrawal, separatism, and nationalism conform to a theory of black history that Rustin has developed, a theory that makes a great deal of sense to anyone familiar with the story of the black man in white America, especially the post-slavery part of the story. It is a cyclical theory. The model of the cycle begins with an upsurge of of hopes and expectations inspired by bold promises and commitments. This is followed by a phase of disappointed hopes and betrayed promises, which is followed in turn by frustration, despair, withdrawal, and separatism of one variety or another. Each phase produces leaders and doctrines that accommodate the accompanying mood. The third phase takes many forms, but some of them invariably attract support from reactionary elements of white society.”
― C. Vann Woodward, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“It is, in short, the growing conviction that the Negroes cannot win—a conviction with much grounding in experience—which accounts for the new popularity of black power. So far as the ghetto Negro is concerned, this conviction expresses itself in hostility, first toward the people closest to him who have held out the most promise and failed to deliver (Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, etc.), then toward those who have proclaimed themselves his friends (the liberals and the labor movement), and finally toward the only oppressors he can see (the local storekeeper and the policeman on the corner). On the leadership level, the conviction that the Negroes cannot win takes other forms, principally the adoption of what I have called a "no-win" policy. Why bother with programs when their enactment results only in sham? Why concern ourselves with the image of the movement when nothing significant has been gained for all the sacrifices made by SNCC and CORE? Why compromise with reluctant white allies when nothing of consequence can be achieved anyway? Why indeed have anything to do with whites at all?

On this last point, it is extremely important for white liberals to understand what, one gathers from their references to "racism in reverse," the President and the Vice-President of the United States do not: that there is all the difference in the world between saying, "If you don't want me, I don't want you" (which is what some proponents of black power have in effect been saying), and the statement, "Whatever you do, I don't want you" (which is what racism declares). It is, in other words, both absurd and immoral to equate the despairing response of the victim with the contemptuous assertion of the oppressor. It would, moreover, be tragic if white liberals allowed verbal hostility on the part of Negroes to drive them out of the movement or to curtail their support for civil rights. The issue was injustice before black power became popular, and the issue is still injustice.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“No two individuals, it would seem, could be further apart politically than [Eldridge] Cleaver and [George] Wallace. Cleaver, on the one hand, embodies and articulates the rage that has gripped large segments of the black community in recent years. Born of desperation and despair, this rage has produced burnings and lootings in the ghetto as well as a philosophy of black separatism that represents more a withdrawal from an intimidating and unresponsive white society than a positive program for political action. This rage was also the source of Cleaver's influence. He could ride its powerful currents to fame and notoriety--which the mass media were more than willing to heap upon him--but he could not begin to propose a solution to the injustices that had produced it. Indeed, to assuage the anger and frustration in the black community would have threatened his own base of power.

Wallace, on the other hand, has often been called the embodiment of white racism and reaction. That he is, but, more precisely, his preeminence was a result of the fear which gripped large sections of the white community throughout the country. The Wallace movement grew to frightening proportions not because of anything that Wallace did but because the politically polarized atmosphere in the country called forth the need for a man who would represent the fears and the very worst instincts of millions of people.

While Cleaver and Wallace seem on the surface to be so very different, they are both simply the manifestations of the same social evils. Black rage and burnt-out ghettos are the product of the economic deprivation of Negro Americans; and white fear and the Wallace vote are the result of the economic scarcity that motivates whites, particularly those in the lower middle class, to feel that they must protect the little they have against the rising demands of blacks. The conditions of deprivation and scarcity, and the consequent growth of racial hostility and political polarization, formed the context within which the events of 1968 unfolded.”
― Bayard Rustin, Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“Желаю нашей стране мирного неба над головой, а тем, кто хочет этого нас лишить — мирной земли над головой.”
― Евгений Гендин

“Герои не умирают. Но злу все равно.”
― Елена Стяжкина

“Вдоль насыпи — тепло и сухо,
вдыхая воздух, как пластид —
ползет отрезанное ухо,
дырявой мочкою свистит.

Ползет сквозь шишел через мышел,
видать — на исповедь, к врачу:
нет, это — нас Луганск услышал,
нет, это — нас Донецк почув.”
― Александр Кабанов

“With the rise of self- awareness, all separatisms cease to exist - all delusions cease to exist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens

“It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.”
― Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“There is no them and us, it's all us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Awake, arise and redeem your land from the clutches of bigots and separatists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“Only by standing together and not against each other, will any of us stand at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“When a person has reached the highest, when they see neither man nor woman, neither black nor white, neither belief nor disbelief, nor any other sects and differentiation, but looks at a person beyond the brandings, then alone has the person attained universal oneness - and such a person is the true revolution incarnate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“All separation is born of labels,
Tear those labels and there'll be light.
Once there is oneness in heart,
Oneness of humanity will manifest alright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“Multiethnic empires are always tiered, undemocratic societies because it is impossible for empires to be other than tiered, undemocratic societies. Empires are always undemocratic because the diverse peoples making up the empire have nothing in common to serve as the foundation for the empire’s laws—no common mythology, no common language, no common culture, no common history, and—most important—no common vision of the empire’s future. … Empires mut necessarily be tiered because a certain group or groups must be given special privileges to enlist their support in the subjugation of the other groups.”
― Thomas W. Chittum, Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America

“The lesson is clear: The more monoethnic a European nation is, the more likely it is to be peaceful and stable. The more multiethnic a European nation is, the more likely it is to experience tribal civil wars. There is simply no real arguing with this brutal fact. The lesson here is that the likelihood of a minority group having a go at a military divorce from the nation increases with its chances of success, and its chances of success increase with its percentage of the population. … The most multiethnic European nation produced the most multiethnic dead.”
― Thomas W. Chittum, Civil War II: The Coming Breakup of America

“Wholeness means liberty, not external liberty, but internal liberty, liberty from prejudice, liberty from discrimination, liberty from bigotry, liberty from duality or separatism. Wholeness is oneness and oneness breeds harmony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Lesser the walls greater the expansion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“The power of one is the power of all, wilderness is another name for divisionism. When we are together we are civilized, civilization is synonym for nonsectarianism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Oneness is life, separateness is death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“The issue of tribalism, racism, segregation of whichever form and manner it beholds, and separatist arguments...All these, are toxic elements in our living as a people.”
― DON SANTO

“Separatism is antithesis of sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“the main reason that brought fascism to power was not democracy. In fact, the “grandsons” of the emperors believed in the magic of a "National Authoritarian Messiah" in order to get out of the calamity Germany suffered instantly. On the other hand, democrats could not produce bigger lies to win over the majority. That was why Tyranny succeeded in destroying democracy by using democracy itself.
But destroying democracy results in paying a price for it too. Because an anti-democratic society is intolerant and hates those it does not tolerate. It ensures its political hegemony by eliminating those it hates, and its economic hegemony by seizing their properties.
In other words, the lack of democracy means political and ethnic separatism, followed by political and ethnic genocide.

-To be tried as a Jew-”
― Jeyhun Aliyev Silo

“Now more than ever the hateful, intolerant, separatist bigots need our help, for they are ill, terribly ill. They are suffering from a condition, I call, Clinical Culturitis. So next time you see one, offer them a flower, and say - get well soon!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“The Nondual Nutcase (Sonnet Beyond Binary)

Separatism is the hallmark of eurocentric thought,
whether it's separation between the mortal and divine,
or the separation between reason and theology,
or between science and philosophy, or prose and poetry.

Every single aspect of human consciousness
touched by eurocentrism ends up divided and
desecrated, losing its health-giving wholeness,

which is why I never felt at home with euroschools,
despite the fact that I too like everyone on the
planet grew up in a westwashed education system.

However, it took me over a hundred books and
2000 sonnets to wake up to the tangible realization,
that the entire eurocentric paradigm is separatist,
from its science to philosophy to theology to poetry.

In euro schools of thought we say:
keep the divine separate from the people,
keep science separate from philosophy.
In Naskarian we say:
integration is divine by reason of poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Separatism is the hallmark of eurocentric thought, whether it's separation between the mortal and divine, or the separation between reason and theology, or between science and philosophy, or prose and poetry. Every single aspect of human consciousness touched by eurocentrism ends up divided and desecrated, losing its health-giving wholeness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop