“New Civil War Has Begun, Sonnet
(Letter to Bigots)
One by one every nation is
regressing back to the cavemen days.
Persecution is becoming national norm,
that too, by means of democratic ways.
What's the point of having a democracy,
if in the end, you elect bigoted autocrats!
Which only points to an uncomfortable truth,
world population is still dominated by bigots.
Whole world is headed back to the dark ages,
unlike last time, this time it's people's will.
Bigots pretend human, but bigots elect bigots -
once an ape, always an ape, thus blooms a jungle.
You cannot expect me to respect your opinion,
when your opinion is founded in discrimination.
Intolerance is not a difference in opinion,
any more than hate crime is a right to freedom.
You can have your little victories, for I know,
it's difficult to outgrow your jungle basement.
But this I promise you, I'll ignite your children
into a sanctifying thunder of emancipation.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“I think we place the wrong emphasis upon examples, that we're treading on very weak ground when we set ourselves up as examples for others to become religious. If people are going to look at me for religious guidance, then I think they're looking in the wrong place.”
Source: Charles M. Schulz: Conversations
“Whenever, wherever, fanaticism weaponizes fear, human hearts gotta rise, abandoning tranquility. Whenever chowderheads infringe on love and reason, time be my testament - My World, My Responsibility!”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“MAGA, Zionism, Hindutva, Prima gli Italiani, Khalistan, Islamism, Türkiye Yüzyılı, these are proof, we come from the monkeys; while humans take a snooze, monkeys roam free.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“People don't qualify as people when they deny humanity to others.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“To burn the bridges with dehumanizers is the first requirement of civilization.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction. The luxury liner becomes a battleship, or the black jolly roger and the red executioner’s flag are hoisted on it.”
Source: The Forest Passage
“Calling out the supposed ‘abuse’ of welfare by blacks and other people of color is a time-honored tactic for distracting the general public from actual national issue. It also taps into latent, subconscious racism, which is what right-wing politicians would call a ‘win-win.”
Source: Dear White People
“It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.”
“Did they know what Communism, “Bolshevism,” was? They did not; not my friends. Except for Herr Kessler, Teacher Hildebrandt, and young Horstmar Rupprecht (after he entered the university, in 1941), they knew Bolshevism as a specter which, as it took on body in their imaginings, embraced not only the Communists but the Social Democrats, the trade-unions, and, of course, the Jews, the gypsies, the neighbor next door whose dog had bit them, and his dog; the bundled root cause of all their past, present, and possible tribulations.”
Source: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45