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“Hoist your heart as beacon to the whole,
Stand your feet as anchor to ethics.
Speak your spine as wave of integrity,
Ride your brain as cure for prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Equality, though conceived very largely in America, des not extend so low down as to an emigrant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains

“Of all stupid ill-feelings, the sentiment of my fellow-Caucasians towards our companions in the Chinese car was the most stupid and the worst.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Across The Plains

“Colonizer of A Different Kind
(The Sonnet)

Only the shape of colonialism
has changed, not the nature.
Tendencies are just as filthy,
rightful heir to animal disaster.

I too am a colonizer,
but of a different kind.
I colonize no home by force,
with words I colonize minds.

Humanitarianism is civilized colonialism -
simpler still, humanitarianism is civilization.
That's the contagion my literature carries,
through my proses and sonnetic revelation.

First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“If you must be poised, you must not have prejudice against others.”
― Zinny Ekechukwu

“Chains to hack before I sleep,
Chains hack humanity to pieces.
Peace to plant before I sleep,
Come join me, let's grow a forest!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Lives to serve before I sleep,
Service is my salvation.
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Selfless joy brings illumination.

Bridges to build before I sleep,
Walls are too savage a burden.
Tears to wipe before I sleep,
In human smile lies human heaven.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Enter a hall with high ceiling, and you feel small, in a room with low ceiling you feel like a giant. The height of human doesn't depend on numbers, we judge our height relative to the world around. Bigots hate an inclusive world not because it is unorthodox, but because it reminds them, how puny they are - how small.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Only garbage are those calling others as such.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“I don't need to believe in what you believe, to love you. But if you believe in exclusive supremacy, I don't need to respect you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Naskar is an act of oneness,
not cleverness or creed.
Beyond the narrow lanes of habit,
one day you and I shall meet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“I am a riddle most simple,
yet at the same time most complex.
Simple to those unchained by orthodoxy,
but complex, nonsense and even offensive,
to the proud merchants of prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“It's not enough to abandon archaic chains,
just as crucial is to renounce modern chains.
No matter the material and manufacture date,
golden, bronze or silicon, chains are chains.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He said he wrote most of his poetry when he was sad and, judging by all the poems he wrote, he must have been sad a lot of the time. I think what made him sad was how people, especially people of color, were treated.”
― Willie Perdomo, Visiting Langston

“Soul that is kind is soul divine, mind segregated is most unholy kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“First thousand were an accident,
Second thousand, a promise.
Answer to traditional animosity,
Antidote to doting prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Each act of hate is the same old crucifixion frenzy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Arise, O Atlas (Sonnet 1100)

Vakna, Stå upp, o Modige Atlas!
Ta världen på din axel,
Förkasta allt som är ojust.

Awake, Arise, O Atlas Supreme,
Take the world on your shoulder.
Denounce all roots of hate and hurt,
Wielding your humanitarian viking thunder.

I don't write for creatures of gutter,
I write for those craving for open skies.
If you can give up your golden fancies,
I'll give you a world beyond the lies.

Despierta, levántate, oh loco amante!
El mundo entero está a tu cuidado.
Give up your aphrodisiac of wild ancestry,
Somos humanos cuando nos descubrimos en cada humano.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Beyond fear and fanaticism,
Beyond ignorance and intolerance,
There’s a valley of love and laughter,
Come someday, I shall meet you there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“People like us are always hated until they need us--isn't that always the way?”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun

“The Caretaker, Sonnet

What was good enough for the
fiction fearing men of the past,
is no yardstick for the civilized us.
Just like what we carve out for ourselves,
may not be sufficient for future generations.

Every generation must carve their own destiny,
taking lessons from the past, not edicts.
No generation is authority of the other,
each generation must write their
own rights, lingo and ethics.

Every generation needs caretakers,
and the caretaker of your generation is you.
There is no such thing as a golden age,
age gets golden or gutted by the likes of you.

What was good enough for the apes,
is no yardstick for the sapiens.
My world, my responsibility -
voices the Caretaker thundersaint!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what we carve out for ourselves, may not be sufficient for future generations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“But two dozen of them were sent quietly to Cat Island, a small uninhabited speck of sand, brush, sloughs, and alligators, just two miles offshore from Gulfport, Mississippi. There they spent three months creeping through bushes and swamps, hunted by dogs being trained to detect what someone in the army brass thought was the unique scent of the Japanese. When a dog happened across one of the nisei boys, a guard fired a shot in the air, the Nisei soldier dropped to the ground and played dead, and a piece of meat was thrown on the ground in front of him. The dogs inevitably ate the meat licked the soldiers' faces, and wagged their tails enthusiastically. As one of the soldiers, Yasuo Takata, remembered, 'We didn't smell Japanese, We were Americans. Even the dogs knew that.”
― Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

“Black, white, brown or muslim,
or any qaum* of the human world,
no society is civilized society,
till no *community is marginal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The Great Beyond (Sonnet)

Beyond fright there is flight,
Beyond blight there is light.
Beyond hate there is height,
Beyond MAGAts there is mind.

Beyond rigidity there is growth,
Beyond bigotry there is illumination.
Beyond stereotypes there is society,
Beyond segregation there is civilization.

Beyond fundamentalism there is faith,
Beyond division there is divinity.
Beyond prejudice there is piety,
Beyond scripture there is sanctity.

Beyond the church there is Christ,
Beyond koran there is kainat (cosmos).
Beyond tradition there is transcendence,
Beyond conditioning there is concord.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“You are the God, you are the King,
you are Queen Mother of the living.
Yours is not to pamper puritanical pests,
yours is to rise and roar, o citizen of dream.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Prejudice is the root of all persecution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“My truth is love, not belief or disbelief. Prejudice is the root of all persecution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim