All Quotes

"Post-apocalyptic world will never unfold like in the movies, the post-apocalyptic world already exists, may be not for you, as you're born on the lucky side of privilege - but that world of drought, flood, famine, plague and persecution already exists - ten steps from the door of the privileged."

"When bigots get loud, we gotta make our existence even louder."

"Those who practice intolerance as freedom, hate as holiness, conspiracy as wisdom, and prejudice as purity, are a lot of things, but not human."

"Faith can be unholy, science can be inhuman, none depends on the tool, all depends on the person."

"An empty attic is a primate's olympus."

"If you can't be a tsunami, be a flash flood - if you can't be a flash flood, be a garden hose, and wash away the inhumanities around you."

"When someone plays fast and loose with rights and freedom, their place is either in the jungle or in a mental institution, not in office."

"Mass deportation is human trafficking."

"It's the golden age of crime, when the biggest cartel of a nation is its own government."

"Brain is there to think first, then take a side, but society teaches you to pick a side first, then think alike."

"In a world of flexible spine and rigid mind, muster an unbending spine with expanding mind."

"Selma to Montgomery, from river to the sea, we stand guard, All Awake to Humanity!"

"Inclusivity makes society, accessibility is humanity."

"There is no White DNA, Black DNA. There is no Muslim DNA, Jewish DNA. We're made of stuff of the stars, why do you still rot in the jungle gutter!"

"There is no genetic test for ethnicity - science declares sanctions on racism, not validation. If you are seeking validation for your bigotry and prejudice, all we scientists can offer you are directions to the nearest psychiatrist."

"All prejudice comes with a flag, all discrimination comes with a badge."

"To be aware is to rewire."

"Don't take the lens for the landscape."

"You know, which nation has the nicest people? You cannot guess in a million years. The nation with the nicest people is, Earth, for no nation has exclusive franchise over niceness - goodness is a human quality, not a national one. Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one. Sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian. Culture is an act of expansion, not exclusion."

"My only gift is my heart, my only asset is my brain, my only backup is my backbone."

"Let there be gods - not one, not three, but billions upon billions - let each human be a god unto themselves - without fear, without prejudice - without superstition, without cynicism - let each mind rise triumphant over malice."

"Prejudice is not piety, no matter the lies laced with wine. Dismantling of prejudice is the dawning of divine."

"From the dark furnace of the human skull dawns the light of humankind."

"Mind is one big lie, unless you examine everything. Life is one big blind spot, unless you question everything."

"There is no greater spiritual journey than the rejection of prejudice."

"I grew up celebrating Diwali, eating fruitcake on the 25th, and waking up to the call of azaan. If I'm devout anything, it's a devout human."

"To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human."

"I am the Naskar, and I bridge people."

"By race we are all african, by birth we are all feminist, by nature we are all lovers, by suffering we are all poets."

"The real traitor is not the one who questions the state, but the one who kills for it, without questioning why."

"The case for peace is not state vs terrorism, the case for peace is citizens vs states of earth."

"Whether the head smashes against the wall, or the wall smashes against the head, the result is always the same - whether a fascist smashes against the citizens, or the citizens smash against the fascist, the result is always the same."

"Human kneels to no ICE or SS."

"There is more divinity in a helping hand and a loving smile, than imagined by all your fictitious theologies."

"Bigotry is the ruin of a brain, superstition is a waste of imagination."

"Faith is a private pill, not public law."

"You cannot develop consciousness without correcting your biases."

"Life is just three days - yesterday, today, tomorrow; yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not come, all we have is today - so in actuality, life is just one day, today - rest is either memory or imagination."

"Sit on the floor once in a while, on the floor, in the fields, on the streets, you'll remember, what it means to be human."

"The day you care more about essential rights than essential oils, I'll respect your spirituality. The day you care more about sharing a hot meal than hot yoga, I'll respect your spirituality."

"Holiness unfolds in human welfare."

"There is no other grand design, except a beautiful human mind."

"Take theology out of the sky and place it in the heart of humanity."

"Perception is not a measure of reality, perception is a measure of distance - from afar the sun is a dot, from farther the milkyway is a dot, from farther still the universe is a dot. Likewise, from afar God is an entity, from up close, God is a state of mind, get closer still, and you are God."

"Godliness is measured by one's capacity to disrupt cruelty, not comply with customs."

"You know what is the real god particle? You are. Every person who refuses to entertain division and discrimination in any form, is the practicing god particle of society."

"Civilization isn't built by laws, civilization is built by hearts that dare to disobey injustice."

"When ethnic cleansing becomes your religion, mutiny becomes our right."

"I keep facts-n-faith both in my back pocket, my chest pocket is always empty - nothing must hinder the light of heart, set your heart ablaze, unfiltered by frivolity."

"Everybody has a right to love and happiness, any book, brain or ballot that demands otherwise, take it to the wilderness and set it free, far, far away from civilization."