Browse 520 quotes about Multiculturalism.
“Cosmos is colored.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Here at the mountaintop, we're just humans - no black, no white, no believer, nonbeliever - here at the mountaintop, we're each other's keeper.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Cosmos is colored, all color is kin.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Letter from The Mountaintop (Sonnet 2252)
Cosmos is colored,
all color is kin.
Scarlight makes the mind,
sunlight makes the skin.
Life is nonbinary,
existence is nonbiblical.
When 'sacred' is anagram for 'scared',
to sin is our Earth Gospel.
Churchill and Columbus belong in the jungle,
loudmouth karens belong in mental institution.
Those who've been to the mountaintop,
grow too human for the dunghills of dogma.
Here at the mountaintop, we're just humans -
no black, no white, no believer, nonbeliever -
here at the mountaintop, we're each other's keeper.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Siempre adelante, nunca atrás.
Forever united, never apart.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Siempre adelante, nunca atrás.
Forever united, never apart.
Corazón primero, dinero después.
İnsanın acılarına insandır ilaç.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.
You barely speak one language,
ramble doctrines from one dead book,
can't see beyond the customs of your tribe,
yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“We weep in different tongues,
but the salt is the same.
We smile in different colors,
but the gleam is the same.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“My brain is multilingual,
my heart is multicultural,
my life is multidimensional,
I exist for I dissolve in all.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I'm a homing pigeon, and I'm homing in on integration - and since there is no such thing, I'm building my homeworld person by person.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“I'll never force you to be inclusive,
if you do harm, I'll restrain you,
but I'll never resort to weapons -
moreover, I'll never kill for inclusion,
I'll simply beg, on my knees,
I'll beg till I drop dead -
because I have nothing to lose,
no reputation, no image, no class.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Sanitizing Textbooks (Sonnet 2317)
Abolish all white teachers from schools
and universities across the world,
and replace them with noncaucasians,
and the human race will be decolonized
and properly civilized within a hundred years -
but then again, that would be just as inhuman,
ethnic cleansing doesn't cure ethnic cleansing,
so we have to go for the only humane alternative,
and sanitize every last textbook of all whitewashing.
Give up the filthy habit of associating philosophy
with the greeks, and poetry with the english -
education that doesn't reflect plural humanity,
raises only goodlooking jungle rubbish.
We need special instruments to see
the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves,
but to feel the full spectrum of humanity
a heart freed from supremacy is sufficient.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“I don't beg for equality, I establish equality.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I don't plea, I execute.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I Too Am A Racist (Sonnet)
I too am a racist, except my racism
is rooted in evolution, not ignorance and fear -
to me, human race is the mightiest animal,
which is why, our responsibility is far greater.
I too am a bigot, but my bigotry is tolerance,
I don't accept anyone as human who's intolerant.
I too am a fundamentalist, but my faith is choice,
every human is free to choose what's best for them.
I too am a traditionalist, except I walk the tradition
of acceptance, not a secondhand host to dividing lineage.
I too am an extremist, except my extreme is annihilation,
my culture don't exist, nor religion, or native language.
I am native of the earth, yet I'm immigrant to humankind,
for I come from a valley, alien to the states of the world.
I am not interested in building bridges, I am the bulldozer,
out to demolish convention that makes divisions possible.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The way apes understand what's cultured, I'm not that sort of cultured - I'm humanly cultured - which means, I live as cure for tribalism, not coddle; I abolish chains, not worship them, I do not entertain stereotypes - I question and denounce prejudice, both external and internal.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The Sonnet is Civilization (Sonnet 2235)
I hear, 'just because you're a citizen,
doesn't mean you're an american'.
I say, just because you're american,
doesn't mean you're a civilized human.
I hear, 'just because you're a citizen,
doesn't mean you're english or australian'.
I say, just because you're english or aussie,
doesn't mean you're a civilized human.
I hear, 'hindi bolnese koi hindustani nahi banjaata',
I say, hindustani bannese koi insan nahi banjaata.
Ved, Koran ya Bible ratta maarnese koi pak ya pavitra
nahi banjaata, there's no greater granth than chetna.
Tyranny never comes dressed as tyranny,
tyranny always comes dressed as tradition.
İyilik evren benim, tüm kâinat benim mahalle,
dogma de la etnicidad arruina la civilización.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Dogma of ethnicity is the ruin of civilization.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The Man With No Roots (Sonnet)
The day children are raised
without religion and nationality,
that's the beginning of peacemaking,
and the empirical end to warmongery.
Either raise your children with
no religion or multiple religions,
either raise your children with
no culture or multiple cultures.
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.
I have no roots, for I am the roots;
I am the ruin of all heritage of lies.
Illegal Immigrant in every state,
for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Either raise your children with no religion or multiple religions, either raise your children with no culture or multiple cultures.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Black, white, brown, red, yellow, hetero, homo, trans, poor, rich, literate, illiterate, weak, strong – all are my sisters and brothers.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“My entire life is a struggle to establish earth as home for every faith and fervor, there is no place for derangement disguised as divine chosenness.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Latin Passion, Turkish Woundlight, Nordic Thunder, Celtic Wonder, Afro Grit, American Ambition, Arabian Adamance, Chinese Ingenuity, Indian Nonduality - like rivers running eager to meet in sea, cultures converged to bring me to life.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I never hankered for booze or drugs, you know why - because I'm already drunk, with the most hard-hitting, brain-altering contraband in history - I'm ever consumed with languages and cultures.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“The Drunken Polyglot (Sonnet 2300)
I never hankered for booze or drugs,
you know why - because I'm already drunk,
with the most hard-hitting, brain-altering
contraband in history - I'm ever consumed
with languages and cultures.
Latin Passion, Turkish Woundlight,
Nordic Thunder, Celtic Wonder, Afro Grit,
American Ambition, Arabian Adamance,
Chinese Ingenuity, Indian Nonduality -
like rivers running eager to meet in sea,
cultures converged to bring me to life.
I am vast beyond the spell of tribe,
I am the ruin of all resurging reich.
Call it Reich, Empire or Uncle Sam -
Zionist State or Hindu Rashtra -
Animal Kingdoms are found everywhere, still,
reason is to reichs what phenyl is to floor.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Black is brave,
Woman is wonder,
Muslim is magnetic,
Asian is thunder.
Prejudice is plunder,
Biases are blunder.
Hate wreaks havoc,
when hearts are asunder.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“True festival of life unfolds when all usher into oneness.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“I don't write on multiculturalism, I am multiculturalism, I'm the living specimen of a multicultural human from the future. Today I may be the anomaly, but tomorrow people like me will be the norm, and cultural exclusivity will be a deranged fringe practice, like witchcraft is today.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“When Calls The Kainat (Sonnet)
No matter how many years go by,
how many decades, how many centuries,
there'll always be some people who'd
call me a fraud - don't be upset,
don't hold a grudge - nothing good
ever comes out of bearing grudge,
just let them be - let them be and
let them go, because I forgive them.
Let them hate their head off,
seeds of heart are already planted.
Apes throw tantrum when they are insecure,
pursuit of delusion soothes the vegetated.
When calls the Kainat*, chatter of
monkeys turn faint echoes from the past.
*Cosmos chimes in my chambers of heart -
veritas est pons, pons est veritas.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“We live under one sky, we breathe the same air, it's time we join each other for the first supper.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“No geography holds exclusive franchise over greatness.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Awake, Arise, Integrate - to segregate is to disintegrate!”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Every culture is my culture, every country is my country.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“We need a civilized patriotism, one that is devoid of all sectarianism and cultural supremacy. We gotta be patriotic towards humanity, not nationality - we gotta be patriotic for justice and equality, not supremacy - we gotta be patriotic for inclusion, not the exclusive sustenance of our own dignity at the expense of the dignity of others.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“The difference between (hu)man and monkey lies in inclusivity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Black, white, brown, red, yellow, hetero, homo, trans, poor, rich, literate, illiterate, weak, strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“That’s the only conquest I care about, for language is the highway to culture. Not real estate, gadgets or cash, give me languages, give me cultures.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Not real estate, gadgets or cash, give me languages, give me cultures.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Integration 101: I don't exist,
that's my law of integration.
Had I not told you my name,
it'd be impossible for you
to know my culture and nation.
Any ape can boast about its culture,
I'll die roaring for all but my own.
I am local of a borderblind world,
something illegible to the cavegrown.
Borders are glorified apartheid,
Passports are glorified bus pass.
No peace can ever come to light,
from the doings of apartheid heart.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“My existence is testament to assimilation, proof of the wonders beyond exclusivity.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Awake, arise, abandon divide!”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“At the same time that the Mayor and City Council acted courageously and progressively in ridding the city of those monuments to a loathsome past, the new regime that removal celebrates, as some skeptics note, rests on commitments to policies that intensify economic inequality on a scale that makes New Orleans one of the most unequal cities in the United States. ... Local government contributes to this deepening inequality through such means as cuts to the public sector, privatization of public goods and services, and support of upward redistribution through shifting public resources from service provision to subsidy for private, rent-intensifying redevelopment (commonly but too ambiguously called "gentrification"). These processes, often summarized as neoliberalization, do not target blacks as blacks, and, as in other cities, coincided with the emergence of black public officialdom in and after the elder Landrieu's mayoralty and continued unabated through thirty-two years of black-led local government between two Landrieus and into the black-led administration that succeeded Mitch.
Both the processes of neoliberalization and racial integration of the city's governing elite accelerated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It may seem ironic because of how the visual imagery of dispossession and displacement after Katrina came universally to signify the persistence of racial injustice, but a generally unrecognized feature of the post-Katrina political landscape is that the city's governing class is now more seamlessly interracial than ever. That is, or should be, an unsurprising outcome four decades after racial transition in local government and the emergence and consolidation of a strong black political and business class, increasingly well incorporated into the structures of governing. It has been encouraged as well by the city's commitment to cultural and heritage tourism, which, as comes through in Mayor Landrieu's remarks on the monuments, is anchored to a discourse of multiculturalism and diversity. And generational succession has brought to prominence cohorts among black and white elites who increasingly have attended the same schools; lived in the same neighborhoods; participated in the same voluntary associations; and share cultural and consumer tastes, worldviews, and political and economic priorities.”
Source: The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
“Arise, O Atlas (Sonnet 1100)
Vakna, Stå upp, o Modige Atlas!
Ta världen på din axel,
Förkasta allt som är ojust.
Awake, Arise, O Atlas Supreme,
Take the world on your shoulder.
Denounce all roots of hate and hurt,
Wielding your humanitarian viking thunder.
I don't write for creatures of gutter,
I write for those craving for open skies.
If you can give up your golden fancies,
I'll give you a world beyond the lies.
Despierta, levántate, oh loco amante!
El mundo entero está a tu cuidado.
Give up your aphrodisiac of wild ancestry,
Somos humanos cuando nos descubrimos en cada humano.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“I’m sorry, I cannot live a single cultural, single lingual, single scriptural existence. I want all the cultures and languages, I want all the scriptures and sciences.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Every community is my home.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Carrying cosmos in my chest, every community is my home.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Love is our nationality, not land. Compassion is our religion, not creed. Conscience is our byword, not constitution. Heil Hitler, God save the king, Vande Mataram, Patria o Muerte - it's all the same - a declaration of tribal glory, with no concern for the rest of humanity. Such archaic attitude suits a bronze-age society, not a civilized one. It's time for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (world is family), not Vande Mataram (hail the motherland) - it's time for Mundo y Vida (world and life), not Patria o Muerte (homeland or death) - it's time for Humans save Humanity, not God save the king.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Cutting ties with all cave-age customs, oneness is actualized in mindful diversity.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Diversity is the presence of 'us',
Inclusion is celebration of 'us'.
Tradition is the worship of past,
Evolution is the celebration of 'us'.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets