Hate Crimes Quotes

“What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.”
― Alex Sanchez, The God Box

“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“Sentencing enhancements won't get police to investigate crimes they don't take seriously to begin with. They won't stop police from harassing trans women on the street because they assume all trans women are sex workers. They won't have any effect against police officers who believe they won't be held accountable. They won't sway the minds of jurors who think 'I killed her because she was trans' is an adequate excuse. Sentencing enhancements will allow them to dole out harsher punishments against the people they think are more deserving. And we already know that the legal system sees people of color, women, sex workers, immigrants, and the homeless as more deserving of punishment. (Tobi Hill-Meyer of COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere), "Disposable People," November 11, 2008, http://nodesignation.com)”
― Kay Whitlock, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

“Be a Reformer, Be a Rowdy!
Every inhuman that comes in your way,
Unarmed you set fire to their dormant humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of white folks standing in a circle roasting something that had talked to them in their own language before they tore out its tongue.”
― Alice Walker

“You know what Black means? BLACK means Brave, BLACK means Leaderly, BLACK means Adventurous, BLACK means Considerate, BLACK means Kind.

You know what Woman means? WOMAN means Wonder, WOMAN means Original, WOMAN means Miracle-worker, WOMAN means Affectionate, WOMAN means Noble.

You know what Pride means? PRIDE means Passionate, PRIDE means Resilient, PRIDE means Indefatigable, PRIDE means Determined, PRIDE means Equal.

You know what Muslim means? MUSLIM means Magnanimous, MUSLIM means Unbending, MUSLIM means Sensible, MUSLIM means Luminous, MUSLIM means Inquisitive, MUSLIM means Mindful.

You know what Asian means? ASIAN means Amiable, ASIAN means Strong, ASIAN means Independent, ASIAN means Articulate, ASIAN means Neighborly.

In short, you know what Human means? HUMAN means Harmonious across Hate, Undivided through Diversity, Mindful amidst Mindlessness, Amiable amidst Apathy, and Neighborly amidst Nonchalance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“You know what Human means? HUMAN means Harmonious across Hate, Undivided through Diversity, Mindful amidst Mindlessness, Amiable amidst Apathy, and Neighborly amidst Nonchalance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Mental illness is often used as a rationale or label placed on hate crimes. In fact, it rarely is connected to one’s mental state, but instead, through hatred and other prejudicial mores established in early childhood.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2013

“Handicapped is not the one with a crippled body, Handicapped is the one with a crippled heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Humans and animals all are welcome in my house, but not fundamentalists and nationalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Every sapiens is atom bomb,
Every sapiens is a power plant.
Reckless mind is mayhem machine,
Hateless mind is lightland.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Peace across prejudice, harmony across hatred, that is sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“One day all of us will end up
six feet under, do you want your grave
to stink of hate or smell of love!
I for one will die of love despite hate,
so that even when I'm gone,
I leave behind nothing but love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“You know why I put that "rag" on my head occasionally, even though I hold no compulsion for it?

Because in some parts of the world people are still medieval enough to deem us "ragheads" and "desert dwellers" as subject of fear, hate, mistrust and repugnance. I cannot change how these suited savages feel by retaliating hate with further hate. The only way I can expand anybody's sight is by being the most exuberant raghead that ever lived.

We treat the worst of humanity by being the best of humanity. That is why I am raghead, that is why I am latino, that is why I am black, and that is why I am many more facets of human existence in one body. I am one, yet I am all. Or better yet, I am all, that's why I am one.

Wherever someone is pushed to the wall, I am there. Wherever someone is kneed to the ground, I am there. Wherever someone is denied the freedom of choice and the freedom of love, I am there. Wherever someone is denied the common decency and dignity in life, I am there. For I am but a reflection of life oppressed, for I am but resuscitation of life oppressed, for I am but invigoration of life oppressed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“When the heart is overrun by hate,
And fervor is f***ed up with phobia,
It's no time for tolerance and truce,
It is time to blow your fuse!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Radioactive Mind (The Sonnet)

In front of the radioactivity of mind,
Radioactivity of matter turns dim.
In front of the joules of a just heart,
A billion ohms of hate become nil.
Hate is the question,
Heart is the answer.
Hate is the sickness,
Heart is the cure.
Prejudice is the ailment,
Piety is the cure.
What is piety you ask!
Nothing but kindness more pure.
Kindness is divinity, kindness is sanity.
Wasting it to codify life is sheer stupidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Esperanza Impossible Sonnet 1

Earth is but a bedlam,
All the beings are loonies.
We are so engrossed in prejudice,
Integration feels like blasphemy.
We still cannot live side by side,
We want it all for ourselves.
We won't even move a single inch,
When it comes to our opinion and ways.
Selfishness, thy name is Sapiens,
Upon its norm we philosophize kindness.
We invented fancy terms like altruism,
Lest we're infected with common humanness.
Humanity is too alive to be bound by ism.
Dead things can be dogmatized, not expansion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Earth is but a bedlam, all the beings are loonies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Bullets are but relics of yesteryear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“When all go berserk for sect as bozos on booze, be the sectless sapiens and stand indivisible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If we want the cycle of hate and prejudice to break, we gotta be tolerant of the hateful being, without being tolerant of the hate and prejudice that they practice. If we fail to do so, then how are we any different from those savages!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“We cannot shoot our way to justice,
We cannot lynch our way to liberty.
We cannot nuke our way to peace,
We cannot hate our way to humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Be the proof of integration,
Against all caution ancestral.
Those who peddle division belong,
In a sanitarium, not on a pedestal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“There never was a real thanksgiving where the pilgrims welcomed the native americans to join them for a meal. And no amount of fairytale can change history. But what we can do is, start a tradition of real thanksgiving, by welcoming the persecuted and the discriminated into our hearts and accepting them as our family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Good Seed (The Sonnet)

It is existentially impossible,
For all republicans to be inhuman fiend.
But when they violate human rights as daily choir,
It is also impossible to notice the good seed.
It is existentially impossible,
For all republicans to incite hate and violence.
But when a party coddles guns over children,
It is difficult to find anything good in them.
It is existentially impossible,
For all republicans to confuse divinity with division.
But when a party uses bible as an excuse for bigotry,
It is impossible to see the silent vessels of inclusion.
Forgive me, if at times I have been harsh at an entire party!
I know you're there, o good seed - it is time to grow some greenery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Divinity is in every culture,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Why do you want to save me? I am already dead. Those who I love in the world are all lost to me. There seems little chance that they will return alive. Then why should I live? Tell the world my name.”
― Sheikh Gulzar-Rohingya issues

“Now your people! Ya'll got a good reason to hate. All the wrongs been done to you and yours? A people who been whipped and beaten, hunted and hounded, suffered so grievously at their hands. You have every reason to despise them. To loathe them for centuries of depravations. That hate would be so pure, so sure and righteous - so strong!”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout