The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America QUOTES

21 " Law enforcement exists to ensure the safety of the public, but if the public are primitive enough to think that all they need to ensure their safety is a personal firearm, then we better destroy all things civilized and head back to the jungle, because a society where anybody can own a gun is not a society, but a jungle anyways. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

22 " Owning a gun doesn't increase civilian security, it only threatens it, thus making it far more difficult for law enforcement to ensure public safety. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

23 " Anybody who endorses division over unity is a terrorist. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

24 " The New American Sonnet

America doesn't mean the best,
America means accountability.
America doesn't mean supremacy,
America means responsible liberty.
America doesn't mean flawless,
America means growing against oddity.
America doesn't mean condescension,
America means caring for all humanity.
America doesn't mean white or color,
America means celebration of diversity.
America doesn't mean red or blue,
America means together crossing rigidity.
Stars and stripes have no place for hate.
Our heart is human, it's humanity we celebrate. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

25 " Real rest comes through humility. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

26 " The greatest love is the love for people. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

27 " With indifference people are continuously breeding a society full of disparity – they are constantly aiding the creation of more inequality. We are constantly making way for a world where some parents give their kids x-box to soothe them, for their birthday, and many more parents are forced to use leftover cardboard boxes as cradle for their babies because they don't even have a roof over their head. This is our so called civilization - this is our so called modern humanity - shame on us - shame on us as a species - shame on us as civilized beings - shame on us as thinking and breathing individuals of conscience. No more - no more - we must break this disparity - and we must do it right now - and we are not going to do it by fighting over whose ideology is the best - we are going to do it only by taking actual responsibility of our society - by taking actual responsibility of the world - we are going to do it by acting as a living cure for those disparities, by using our own resources as means to erase those gaps however we can. Only with action born from our heart can we end disparity, not with talks of argument and inaction of complacency. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

28 " You will not know me as the father of a nation, you will know me as a founder of the united earth. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

29 " Desire beyond necessity is the cause of all disparities. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

30 " Leeches live by guns, legends live by ideas. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

31 " Collectivity in individuality is the definition of humanity. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

32 " America was built by refugees, and as such, if this land can't be a refuge for the subjugated and persecuted, then it is an insult on our very existence as the great land of the free and brave. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

33 " Whoever comes to these shores of liberty, in the hope of life, freedom and happiness, automatically becomes an American, by measure of the same determination and will that made our founding fathers set foot on Plymouth Rock escaping British bigotry, snobbery and barbarism. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

34 " We are the sickness, we are the cure. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

35 " Your children are my family, with my last breath I will fortify their destiny. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

36 " Why America Exists

When oppression became unbearable, America was born - when discrimination turned extreme, America was born - when rigidity became intolerable, America was born. America was born of an unbending desire for freedom - America was born of a drive for self-correction - America was born of an urge for progression.

Yes we did many mistakes in the process, even committed horrible atrocities - we drove people off their lands to build a new world for our children - and nothing that we can do today can mend those atrocities of yesterday, but what we can do is to make a promise to ourselves to never repeat those atrocities of our ancestors no more.

It's time we become the new Americans - Americans with more accountability than recklessness - Americans with more curiosity than rigidity - Americans with more acceptability than prejudice - Americans with more inclusivity than discrimination.

There is no our America and their America, there's only one America - the United States of America. You see, ours is not just the United States of America, ours is the United States of Assimilation. And we must practice this principle to the letter and spirit everyday of our lives.

For example, we of all people cannot in right mind deny shelter to those seeking refuge, especially when we are both sociologically and economically capable of doing so. Whoever comes to these shores of liberty, in the hope of life, freedom and happiness, automatically becomes an American, by measure of the same determination and will that made our founding fathers set foot on Plymouth Rock escaping British bigotry, snobbery and barbarism.

Our very country is founded by immigrants. America was built by refugees, and as such, if this land can't be a refuge for the subjugated and persecuted, then it is an insult on our very existence as the great land of the free and brave. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

37 " I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself - burn my soldier of ascension - burn - the more your burn, the more human this world will become. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

38 " I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself - burn my soldier of ascension, burn - the more you burn, the more human this world will become. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

39 " What America explores today, the world explores a decade later. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

40 " It's time we become the new Americans - Americans with more accountability than recklessness - Americans with more curiosity than rigidity - Americans with more acceptability than prejudice - Americans with more inclusivity than discrimination. "

― Abhijit Naskar , The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America