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“Despite the fact that there are many honest and capable police officers in our States, with the persistent events of brutality and incompetence in mind I am compelled to say that the US police department is one of the most unfit, brainless, gutless and backboneless police forces in the world. Defunding such police force won't do any good, we must legislate compulsory regular clinical counseling for each and every officer of the law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“No conviction is beyond scrutiny, for even the strongest of convictions may hold the most despicable of biases, which if left unchecked, can destroy an entire society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent

“Biases continuously try to keep us from recognizing and understanding those biases. For example, racial biases keep us from understanding racial discrimination, just like religious biases keep us from understanding religious discrimination and cultural biases keep us from understanding the inhuman habits in our cultural traditions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“You say, you don't have any prejudice! Let's put that to test, shall we! Read the following phrases, pausing a few seconds after each.

Hallelujah!

¡Viva la libertad!

Shabbat Shalom!

Allahu Akbar!

Black Lives Matter!

We're Here, We're Queer!

My body, my decision!

Now bring your faculty of reason into action, and think, which of the terms induced a negative emotional response in your mind? It's nothing out of the ordinary, it's just common animal nature.

How your brain got conditioned to react in such a way that's a different matter. The main thing is, your brain just reacted exactly like the brain of pavlov's dog every time it heard the bell. The only difference is that, a dog doesn't have further brain capacity to question such conditioning, but a human does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Stagnation & Expansion (The Cognitive Sonnet)

There is not one but two imaginations,
One causes stagnation, another expansion.
It's okay to have a little bit of stagnation,
But stagnation as life causes degeneration.
A stagnant mind raises cognitive defenses,
To guard the stagnation against radical ideas.
An expansive mind brings down their defenses,
To expand perception by embracing new ideas.
Stagnant minds revolting against new ideas,
Are like impressionable kids throwing tantrum.
It's not their fault that they despise expansion,
Ascension takes a huge toll on minds in stagnation.
So when stagnant souls laugh at your expansion.
It is sign that you're moving in the right direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“If a language or culture makes you squeamish or afraid, it means you gotta wash your heart with soap and sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Stereotypes die hard, but they must, otherwise people will.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“The mind makes stereotypes, because the mind wants to survive. Conquer those stereotypes and you'll start to live, not as animal but as human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“It is much easier to conquer outer space than inner space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“The road to a civilized world goes through the dark woods of biases.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“We can never be too cautious of our biases!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“Mere combat skills do not make you an officer of the law, you must have a firm grip over your biases, assumptions and fears.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“To See Color (The Sonnet)

The problem is not that you see color,
It is that you assume character from color.
The problem is not that you see gender,
It is that you assume capacity from gender.
The problem is not that you see religion,
It is that you assume tendency from religion.
The problem is not that you see profession,
It is that you assume worth from profession.
The problem is not that you see sexuality,
It is that you assume nature from sexuality.
The problem is not that you see nationality,
It is that you assume honor from nationality.
The main problem is not that you make assumptions.
It is that you assume yourself beyond examination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Every atom within the human brain is teeming with light. Yet you know why it doesn't come to the surface? Because tradition and ignorance have conditioned the mind to labor more on raising walls rather than bringing them down.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Perception is not observation,
Perception is prediction.
The brain doesn't care about observing,
It only puts forward a self-serving illusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“When we take biases as common sense, that is the end of all common sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Upon conscientious acts of self-correction civilization unfolds. Animals gotta live by instincts, we can't choose the same road.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“We don't build civilization by erecting one sky-scraper after another. We build civilization by wiping out one discrimination after another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission