Social Responsibility Quotes

“It is very easy to be a proud descendant, what takes character is to be a responsible ancestor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“In a time of alleged heightened "feminism" women of color and poor women are being left behind, and yet the trappings that uniquely target us, like poverty, incarceration, police brutality, and immigration, aren't often quantified as "feminist issues".

The reason there is so much dissidence between what a female CEO says you can do and the lived reality of what you can feasibly do is that this type feminism wasn't made for us. We need a movement that addresses the reality of women's lives rather than the aspiration of what they hope to be.”
― Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

“It is far better to be an insane lover, than to be a heartless discoverer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“How can we make progress? Not with luxury but by lifting the other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“It is with excellence that we'll revolutionize our world, not with success. Look at all those successful people - not a single concern for the downtrodden - not a single act of genuine compassion for those who have nothing - if this is success, then let me remain unsuccessful the rest of my life while struggling to elevate my society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Bookworms love to say, there is no friend as loyal as a book. I say, if your knowledge of all those books doesn’t come to any use of the people around you, then there’s no creature as selfish as you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“You may be a teacher, you may be a janitor, you may be a waitress, you may be a scientist, preacher or artist –whatever you are, whatever you do, do it for the people – so that those who have nothing, can learn to walk again, smile again, live again, because of you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“This is the task of our life - to place people at our mind's altar and serve them with all our heart as our deity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Crazy Not Callous (The Sonnet)

I'm crazy,
But not obnoxious.
I'm free in mind,
But not callous.
I'm ignorant in many things,
But I ain't no intolerant.
I may not know much etiquette,
I know caring with commitment.
I am but a lover most naïve,
No scholar of nothin'.
I am but a warrior unbending,
Got no time for philosophizin'.
To live for people is the mission.
In lifting the fallen lies salvation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“No Rest (The Sonnet)

There is no rest,
Till the last drop of tear is wiped out.
There is no leisure,
Till the voiceless can speak aloud.
There is no relaxing,
Till the last empty stomach is fed.
There is no sleep,
Till all droopy spines are made straight.
There is no joy,
Till the last grey life is colored.
There is no comfort,
Till the last anxious soul is empowered.
The struggle isn't over till the fallen rise.
Security later, first let us be civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“If only one person dies for the cause, a hundred people realize their humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Society is built by determination, not designation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“You wanna try booze, try it - you wanna try weed, try it – you wanna get laid, go get laid - just do it all and get it over with, so that you can pay attention to the real troubles of society. How dare you waste your life on nonsense! You may say, it is your life, and you can do whatever you want with it. To that I say, it is not your life, it is human life, and a human life that doesn't come to the aid of the society is anything but human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“In times of disaster, be the armament to society, in times of celebration, be the ornament to society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Life is too short to be wasted in the heartless pursuit of dollar - once we've acquired the essentials of sustenance, all our attention, energy and resources must go to the elevation of the fallen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Flow through the nerves of society as electricity providing sentience, rush through the veins of society as blood providing energy, and work in the bones of society as calcium providing stability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Goodness makes you accountable, accountability strengthens your goodness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Only the coward says, time and tide wait for none, the valiant lives and works to build new time and to cause new tide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“If taking a stand makes you a nutcase, be the nuttiest case that has ever walked.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“The society that does not respect the sacrifices of their soldiers, remain slave of the corrupt political systems.”
― Dr. Ashok Anand

“I am but a reflection of your struggling humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“I obey no law for I'm the epitome of rightness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Let us draw a noble anatomy for civilization. Let us lay ourselves as cornerstones of ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“My liberty is not in murals of rigidity, My liberty is across tradition’s torment. My liberty is not in the habits of history, My liberty is in building the present.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Only sign of sanity is in mad humanity. Stand tall o brave, as an epitome of integrity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“To wipe out the self is my greatest ambition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Higher the sentience greater the responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Beyond sleep, security and nonchalance, there's a valley of, by and for the humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Society is ours, so are its troubles. Walk as the only human amongst vegetables.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 49

Vegetables have destiny,
Humans have responsibility.
Vermin have luxury,
Humans have simplicity.
Nightcrawlers have insecurity,
Humans have dignity.
Bedbugs have stability,
Humans have community.
Donkeys have self-love,
Humans have self-annihilation.
Horses have competition,
Humans have revolution.
Fancy castles of glass belong in fairy-story.
No time to rest, we have too much duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth