Browse 251 quotes about Reformer.
“I don't care for meditation, I don't care for illumination, I only care for collective ascension.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“If you want joy, serve - if you want reform, serve.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“A sound mind is one that dreams of a better world and works for a better world while being mindful of the limitations of the present world.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“I've never wanted to live as a mortal, I've always wanted to die as an immortal.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Hurt me I'll spare, hurt people I'll devour.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“The world needs young, accountable and unorthodox politicians with the revolutionary vision of a unified planet, who are never afraid to correct their mistakes and grow according to the need of the time, rather than prehistoric buffoons with ideas and beliefs from the stoneage.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Mark my words, I will be gone, but my ideas will continue to create hundreds of Subhas Chandra Boses and Martin Luther Kings in every neighborhood of this world, from the alleys of New York to the streets of Nairobi, from the beaches of Miami to the banks of Kanyakumari, from the sidewalks of Ankara to the foothills of Alaska.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“You may come or not to walk beside me, I won't stand still in silence while the oceans burn and the sun turns dark - I will either right the wrongs or perish in the attempt - and even if I burn to ashes in trying to humanize my surroundings, those ashes of mine will still smoke inclusion, equality and humaneness - I am not born a human to crawl as an indifferent vermin, I am born a human to embrace death for the values, the principles, the virtues that ought to be the foundation of human civilization - I am sleepless and I will stay sleepless till all the children of earth can sleep in peace with a full stomach and a happy heart, without worrying about guns and bombs, without worrying about prejudice and phobia, without worrying about discrimination and deportation - I will stay sleepless till the whole world becomes a family, not in theory, not in philosophy, not in argument, not even in futuristic vision, but in reality and practice.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“It's time to be a hero, instead of holding out for one. The good people of history are all gone - MLK, Lincoln, Parks, Tolstoy, Teresa, Madiba and many more - all are gone, now it's time for us to be the new good people. We must be the new people - a new people with a new vision - a new people with a new perception - a new people with a rejuvenated and determined desire for equality, inclusion and assimilation - a new people bearing the torch of a new world, where religion is the people, philosophy is the people, salvation is the people.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“The terrorist is a radical, so is the reformer. The difference is in their motive - the terrorist wants to build an exclusive society, whereas the reformer wants to build an inclusive society.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“I have no path, for I am the path.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“A lot of people will see you as enemy because of your conviction of inclusion and equality, but do not move an inch from your conviction, especially when the very fate of humanity is predicated on that conviction of yours. Let me tell you a story which my father used to tell me when I was a kid. There was once a reformer in Bengal, the place I was born in. One evening he was walking by the river with a friend of his. Suddenly someone at a distance started shouting at him using curse words. The friend asked - why is the man cursing you, aren’t you going to say anything? The reformer replied, let them shout, it only means that perhaps I am actually bringing some change in the society.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“I am injurious to prejudice, bigotry and sectarianism.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I started off as a scientist, but the needs of the society turned me into a reformer.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.”
Source: The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
“If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country”
“Every generation needs a reformer, if you don't have one, be one.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“If you want light, burn, burn 'n burn again.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Naskar not Nascar (The Sonnet)
Naskar is an alter ego,
Naskar is a calling,
a madness bigger than sanity,
not chained to one being.
Even Abi is no match for Naskar,
Abi will perish, not Naskar.
Naskar is a chemical catastrophe,
priming humans as kind thunder.
Naskar is factory of humanitarians,
imbued with wonders against malice.
Muscle up your heart, heart up your brain,
uncontaminated by leanings of prejudice.
Nascar is a race, Naskar is a journey,
voyage of sapiens ushering in humanity.
Surpassing constraints of bigotry,
Naskar is Manifest Humanity.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“I am justice to the activists,
Common sense to the scientists,
I'm illumination to philosophers,
I am existence to existentialists.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“I'm Here to Destroy You
(Sonnet of Naskars)
I'm not here to comfort you,
I'm here to make you restless.
I'm not here to enlighten you,
I'm here to destroy you peaceless.
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
The duties of Naskar are too heavy
for self-coddling cowards to carry.
That's why, I'm here to destroy you,
your last ounce of self care and peace.
Doing what you need to sustain yourself is
one thing, but to obsess over it is cowardice.
I got no business with such cowardly insects,
who try to hide pettiness with perfectionism.
Give me ten messy vessels restless for purpose,
I shall give the world 10,000 years of ascension.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“I got no business with such cowardly insects, who try to hide pettiness with perfectionism. Give me ten messy vessels restless for purpose, I shall give the world 10,000 years of ascension.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“No sewage is ever sanctified without sewage-workers,
No society is ever civilized without reformers.
No mutation ever occurs without an anomaly,
No world is brought to life without love-laborers.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“There is no sunrise without sacrifice,
There is no unity without inclusion.
There is no love without conviction,
There is no justice without unsubmission.
No sewage is ever sanctified without sewage-workers,
No society is ever civilized without reformers.
No mutation ever occurs without an anomaly,
No world is brought to life without love-laborers.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“The line between activism and terrorism is so thin that if you scratch the surface of all the activists, you'll end up discovering more terrorists than actual reformers.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“No government is my authority, no monarchy is my master. I am here to civilize the governments and abolish the monarchies.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Civilization is built by sleepless lovers, not careless sleepers.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“There's no such thing as activism, there's only accountability.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Dare to be a radical, but make sure it's for the right reason, for it takes very little for a reformer to turn into a terrorist.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Whichever part of this earth I lay my eyes on, becomes my neighborhood. This whole world is my home and every inch of it is under my protection.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I don't worship Gods, I make them.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Stand unbending against inhumanity, without weapons, without violence, only then will your revolution produce a better society.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Bow o brave, o lifter of hearts,
Bow in service losing all pride.
With your acts of care and community,
Make even the dust sanctified.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I don't obey law, I write them.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“In the beginning I wrote ceaselessly on religion, but as I kept studying the tenets of the society, I came to realize that the barriers amongst people have invaded every aspect of life and society, much beyond the mere traditional bounds of religion - they have invaded the very lifeblood of society and have been tearing the society apart from inside out.
I came to realize that the religion of the future is not going to be christianity, islam, judaism or any such traditional system, rather, the religion of the future is going to be social justice. And the best way to shape the future is to envision it early on and start manufacturing it today. Thus, though initially the primary premise of my work was religion, eventually it acquired much wider and diverse societal roots.
My purpose remains the same, that is, to unite you all, to unite my seven billion sisters and brothers of earth, but I had to make a few changes to my approach based on the need of the time as I kept evolving with my work. I started off as a scientist, but the needs of the society turned me into a reformer.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“I'd rather die a martyr than live as a maggot.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“I don't have any message, I am the message.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Fear not - you are my fiery sisters and brothers - oppressors will tremble hearing your footsteps and bigots will shiver at the sight of your arrival.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“To die for society is to live for eternity.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Let death come in its most vicious form - I as an accountable human accept it with utter grace - we the humans accept it with utter glory - for if we don't die, children cannot play in the park - if we do not die, lovers cannot walk freely hand in hand - if we do not die, the elderly cannot enjoy their favorite tv series over a cup of coffee. But mark you, our first duty is not to die for nothing - but to live for the society - if we live and work for society, justice will live, inclusion will live, acceptance will live, peace will live - if we live and work for society, only then will the society live.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“When one Naskar dies, a thousand Naskars will rise.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“I am not here to calm your nerves, I am here to set your veins on fire.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Better die a daring reformer than a cowardly conformer.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Feel for others, think for others, act for others - only then can you call yourself human.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“You know who you are - you are the heroes of Naskar - you are the knights of Naskar - you have no relation with segregation - you have no attachment to bigotry - you have no allegiance to any ideology - the only allegiance that you have is not to me, not to any scripture, not to any school of thought, but to the humankind and humankind alone. You are neither believers, nor nonbelievers, you are neither left, nor right, you are neither intellectual, nor ignorant, you are the whole human beings that the world so desperately needs - you are my order of new humans - humans beyond borders, humans beyond scriptures, humans beyond applause and mockery, beyond wealth and status, beyond anonymity and popularity.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“I have only one wish - when death comes, I want it to come in the shape of a bullet, not disease.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“They may kill my body, but how will they kill my soul which lives in the veins of humanitarians across the world!”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Even if I burn to ashes in trying to humanize my surroundings, those ashes of mine will still smoke inclusion, equality and humaneness.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“A baby is born when the mother's pain is at its extreme, likewise, a humane world is born only when a handful of bravehearts bear the pain to deliver it out of their sweat and blood.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Civilization is not a destination,
Civilization is the journey.
Heaven is a people, not a place,
An exercise in attachment, not apathy.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect