தேன் விரும்பி

“Discomfort, for more privileged sects, can be the threshold into increased awareness. It's the moments in which you shrink from that discomfort, that you don't walk through it, that you don't interrogate why you have such a corporal reaction to the demands of others, that those biases maintain their place.”
― Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

“Starting the history from the South does not mean tampering with the chronology of events or the locus of geography in which the events ought to have taken place. It is about understanding the Rain Forest metaphor of Indian pluralism from another end. The pluralism of the Indus Valley civilization, the pluralism espoused in Sangam texts and the plural realities of contemporary India have a connecting thread of continuity. The Idea of India cannot be appreciated without understanding these connections.”
― R. Balakrishnan, Journey of A Civilization: Indus to Vaigai

“எங்காவது பூனைகளால் எலிகளுக்கு விடுதலை உண்டாகுமா? எங்காவது நரிகளால் ஆடு, கோழிகளுக்கு விடுதலை உண்டாகுமா? எங்காவது வெள்ளைக்காரர்களால் இந்தியர்களுக்குச் செல்வம் பெருகுமா? எங்காவது பார்ப்பனர்களால் பார்ப்பனரல்லாதவர்களுக்கும் சமத்துவம் கிடைக்குமா என்பதை யோசித்தால் இதன் உண்மை விளங்கும். அப்படி ஒருக்கால் ஏதாவது ஒரு சமயம் மேற்படி விஷயங்களில் விடுதலை உண்டாகி விட்டாலும்கூட ஆண்களால் பெண்களுக்கு விடுதலை கிடைக்கவே கிடைக்காது என்பதை மாத்திரம் உறுதியாய் நம்பலாம்.”
― Periyār, பெண் ஏன் அடிமையானாள்?

“Human society has surrendered for seventy centuries to corrupt laws and is no longer able to perceive the true meaning of the sublime, primary, and eternal codes of behaviour. Human vision has become accustomed to looking at the light of feeble candles and can no longer stare at the light of the sun. Each generation has inherited the psychological diseases and maladies of the others, and so these have become universal. They have become attributes inseparable from humanity, so that people no longer look upon them as diseases but consider them natural and noble qualities revealed by God to Adam. And when a person appears among them who lacks these traits, they see that individual as flawed and deprived of spiritual perfections. ... They reckon the upright as criminals and those with self respect as rebels.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings