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“Brown v. Board of Education, 1954:
I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The results: The schools began to mix. What’s really interesting about this case, though, something rarely discussed, is that it’s actually a pretty racist idea. I mean, what it basically suggests is that Black kids need a fair shot, and a fair shot is in White schools. I mean, why weren’t there any White kids integrating into Black schools? The assumption was that Black kids weren’t as intelligent because they weren’t around White kids, as if the mere presence of White kids would make Black kids better. Not. True. A good school is a good school, whether there are White people there or not. Oh, and of course people were pissed about this.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“Even when there was segregation there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.”
― Rosa Parks

“Let meditation be your mirror. See how you treat it and begin to nurture this practice as if a rose in your personal garden, watch it flourish over time.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“...Me, I do not want to go to no suburbans not even Brooklyn. But Joyce wants to integrate. She says America has got two cultures, which should not he divided as they now is, so let's leave Harlem."

"Don't you agree that Joyce is right?"

"White is right," said Simple, "so I have always heard. But I never did believe it. White folks do so much wrong! Not only do they mistreat me, but they mistreats themselves. Right now, all they got their minds on is shooting off rockets and sending up atom bombs and poisoning the air and fighting wars and Jim Crowing the universe."

"Why do you say 'Jim Crowing the universe'?" "Because I have not heard tell of no Negro astronaughts nowhere in space yet. This is serious, because if one of them white Southerners gets to the moon first, COLORED NOT ADMITTED signs will go up all over heaven as sure as God made little green apples, and Dixiecrats will be asking the man in the moon, 'Do you want your daughter to marry a Nigra?' Meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P. will have to go to the Supreme Court, as usual, to get an edict for Negroes to even set foot on the moon. By that time, Roy Wilkins will be too old to make the trip, and me, too."

"But perhaps the Freedom Riders will go into orbit on their own," I said. "Or Harlem might vote Adam Powell into the Moon Congress.''

"One thing I know," said Simple, "is that Martin Luther King will pray himself up there. The moon must be a halfway stop on the way to Glory, and King will probably be arrested. I wonder if them Southerners will take police dogs to the moon?”
― Langston Hughes, The Return of Simple

“A segregated education in America is unacceptable,' he [John Lewis] said. 'Integration is, it still remains, the goal worth fighting for. You should be fighting for it. We should be fighting for it. It is something that is good unto itself, apart from all the other arguments that can be made. This nation needs to be a family, and a family sits down for its dinner at a table, and we all deserve a place together at that table. And our children deserve to have a place together in their schools and classrooms, and they need to have that opportunity while they're still children, while they're in those years of innocence.
'You cannot deviate from this. You have to say, Some things are good and right unto themselves,”
― Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation

“The mind divides the world into a million pieces. The heart makes it whole.”
― Stephen Levine, Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening

“My religion is the deep Silence in me.
I let the silence grow to help myself grow.
Like the peace and Bliss of dawn
The mist over the river
which soon clears
To let the light shine through
To let us see what is over there”
― Ricky Saikia

“The Negro today is not struggling for some abstract, vague rights, but for concrete and prompt improvement in his way of life. What will it profit him to be able to send his children to an integrated school if the family income is insufficient to buy them school clothes? What will he gain by being permitted to move to an integrated neighborhood if he cannot afford to do so because he is unemployed or has a low-paying job with no future? During the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, a nightclub comic observed that, had the demonstrators been served, some of them could not have paid for the meal. Of what advantage is it to the Negro to establish that he can be served in integrated restaurants, or accommodated in integrated hotels, if he is bound to the kind of financial servitude which will not allow him to take a vacation or even to take his wife out to dine? Negroes must not only have the right to go into any establishment open to the public, but they must also be absorbed into our economic system in such a manner that they can afford to exercise that right.

The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities. In asking for something special, the Negro is not seeking charity. He does not want to languish on welfare rolls any more than the next man. He does not want to be given a job he cannot handle. Neither, however, does he want to be told that there is no place where he can be trained to handle it. So with equal opportunity must come the practical, realistic aid which will equip him to seize it. Giving a pair of shoes to a man who has not learned to walk is a cruel jest.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Even if patients with a severed corpus callosum are in fact harboring two distinct loci of experience, this does not show that they or individuals with normal brains do not harbor many more experiencers within them, because the behaviors and reports elicited in experiments do not speak to that question. As Thomas Nagel points out in one of the first philosophical treatments of the split-brain phenomenon, there is no reason to think that verbalizability, or, we might add, any motor output capacity, is a necessary condition for subjective experience. Because measurable outputs will generally occur at the level of maximal integration - that is, at the level of the organism as a whole - they say rather little about the presence of subjective experience in subsystems that are nested within the main system, whether these subsystems are neuronal networks or even neurons themselves. The notion of nested experiencers may counterintuitive, but if we have learned any lesson from modern science, it is that the range of things that exist and the range of things that are intuitively plausible often fail to overlap. It is probably best, therefore, to remain agnostic as to whether there are nested experiencers within maximally integrated conscious systems.”
― Russell Powell, Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind

“Together Forever, Divided Never.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“We are an inner world yet to be discovered.”
― Ciela Wynter, The Inner Journey: Discover Your True Self

“It is important to dedicate some space to discuss what one might call the hoax of diversity in the American workplaces, which entails putting ‘diverseâ€� faces of often low-paid employees at the forefront of most businesses to project the false impression that workplaces are diverse. It is pure tokenism.”
― Louis Yako

“Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.”
― Robert Alan

“His healing was a process of self-reconciliation, accepting the darkest parts of himself and integrating them into who he knew himself to be.”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

“There is no true justice without mercy. Mercy precedes everything, and it is why we are here. Mercy created us and is what is being revealed. The dervish dispenses, communicates, and shares that mercy. Sometimes wrath may be mixed in, but it is always in the service of mercy. God said to the Prophet, „We sent you only as a mercy to the Worlds.â€� The dervish is one who is merciful. In Konya, over the entryway to the dergah where Mevlana (Rumi) is buried, is an inscription which says, „This is the Kaaba of the Lovers. Those who entered here became complete.â€� The dervish walks the Path of completion. A Sufi has complete integration with life while remembering God with every breath. The great majority of Sufis have lived a family life, held a job, and contributed to society, while reaching extraordinary attainments of integrating the finite and the Infinite. They lived in a state of wahdat. (p. 76)”
― Kabir Helminski, In the House of Remembering: The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching

“Either integration or degradation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Integration is an act of love, not intellect.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“No Throne, No Kingdom (The Sonnet)

I need no throne, I need no kingdom,
Human hearts are my heavenly abode.
I need no badge, I need no scepter,
Reason is my partner, warmth my zip code.
I need no praise, I need no offering,
A life of service is my paradise.
I need no reward, I need no award,
Nothing can put a price on sacrifice.
I know no etiquette, I know no manners,
These are all constructs of shallowness.
Humanity ought to drive behavior,
Humility destroys all narrowness.
To forge wholeness and sanity is our mission.
Ending all falsity let's be incarnate integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“No help is insignificant,
No kindness is too puny.
With tiny steps we'll humanize the world,
When we see every human as family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“In conceptual integration theory, we create new emergent structure from fusing or blending shared topology from different domains, whether they are abstract or concrete.”
― Margaret H Freeman, The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition

“Politicians can appease a particular section of society for their personal motives. But only at the cost of national integration.”
― Dr. Ashok Anand

“Apocalyptic Negroes in a stream

Of moving torches, marching from the slums,
Beating a band of garbage pails for drums,

Marching, with school-age children in their arms,
Advancing on the suburbs and the farms,

To integrate the schools and burn the houses...”
― Chad Walsh

“Wake Up From Death (The Sonnet)

Wake up from death and return to life,
For as living dead we’ve been crawling for long.
Wake up from sanity and return to insanity,
For we've been insane in sanity for long.
Wake up from possibility, return to impossibility,
For we've been slave to the possible for long.
Wake up from reality and return to absurdity,
Habits of past have kept us hypnotized for long.
Wake up form truth and return to love,
For we’ve always confused assumptions with truth.
Wake up form ideology and return to the soil,
Integration means inclusion, not ideological coup.
Enough with nonchalance in the name of practicality!
Let us now rise as tornado and wipe out all apathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Åžehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“You don't need to deny the self for inclusion, or to forget your roots for integration. All you gotta do, if you want collectivity, is, expand your roots and branches in cohesion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“The being is the bridge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Monocultural glorification is a moronic habit, Human is born when all tribalism is abandoned.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“The integrationist strategy--the placing of White and non-White bodies in the same spaces--is thought to cultivate away the barbarism of people of color and the racism of White people. The integrationist strategy expects Black bodies to heal in proximity to Whites who haven't yet stopped fighting them.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Human and hate cannot coexist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“I was raised in what is now the "jungle" of New York, the lower Bronx, and, indeed, at that time it was a very pleasant place. We played like all other kids. Where I lived was a very small enclave, a ghetto, but there were a number of ghettos. Most of the people there were immigrants; first generation Americans from Italy, Ireland, Poland, and there were a few French people. In a way, in a peculiar way, it was an integrated community composed of several separated ghettos. That was about the norm in those days. The idea of integration hadn't really gotten started, so I think that for anyone living today it would be a period that would be really difficult to understand...it was...in spite of some of the racism which I began to learn in school, a rather pleasant life.”
― Oliver W. Harrington, Why I Left America and Other Essays

“There is no life so long as we are divided, life united is life brought to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty