Humanitarian Efforts Quotes

“[Author's Note:] It took me four years to research and write this novel, so I began long before talk about migrant caravans and building a wall entered the national zeitgeist. But even then I was frustrated by the tenor of the public discourse surrounding immigration in this country. The conversation always seemed to turn around policy issues, to the absolute exclusion of moral or humanitarian concerns. I was appalled at the way Latino migrants, even five years ago - and it has gotten exponentially worse since then - were characterized within that public discourse. At worst, we perceive them as an invading mob of resource-draining criminals, and at best, a sort of helpless, impoverished, faceless brown mass, clamoring for help at our doorstep. We seldom think of them as our fellow human beings. People with the agency to make their own decisions, people who can contribute to their own bright futures, and to ours, as so many generations of oft-reviled immigrants have done before them.”
― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

“At the moment, don't buy my books, help the people of Ukraine instead.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Today, somehow in some way, I will manage to help somebody who doesn't look or talk like me, someone who is in need and doesn't care about the outer me, someone who is hopefully able to recognize a sincere gesture of kindness and love.”
― Germany Kent

“Abandon all segregation, ye who read me.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“A heart that bleeds for others is the only human heart, all others are mere animal hearts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Whether there is a supreme almighty, is no concern of mine, all I care about is the upliftment of the humans by the humans - by me, you and by every single creature who calls themselves human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Your tiny little neighborhood may have all the comfort of modern life, but there are still countless lands across the world, that lack the very basic amenities of life - in these places, justice, peace, sleep, food, water, shelter, are still stories from the Arabian Nights. So, how can you, a creature of conscience and character sleep so sound, on your soft and cozy bed? How my friend? Throw away the sheets, get down from your pedestal of luxury and run to those lands of misery as the rising sun and give your all to instill the basic rights in their helpless existence, so that at least the unborn could be born in an environment that's more humane than savage, that's more just than immoral, that's more accepting than discriminatory, and that's more evolving than stagnant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“I am like the Vatican or Mecca, people love visiting there once in a while to find solution to their problems and confusions, but no one likes living there. Such is and will always be the predicament of the path of servitude and sacrifice. Knowing this, if you still can’t hold yourself from running to the aid of the helpless and downtrodden, then my friend, there is no power in any obscurity to keep you from uplifting the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Humanitarians don't die, they turn martyr.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“I wish I could tell you that all the comfort and luxuries in the world are a sign of progress, but they are not - they are a sign of disparities - and these disparities can only go away with our sacrifice - with the sacrifice of the humanitarians - some must give all, all must give some, only then will there be actual civilized, sane, healthy and whole progress - progress that includes all of humanity, not just the privileged few.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“I have no side - I have no sect - I have no exclusive belief - for I am universal, I am omnipresent, I am omnipotent. Wherever there is a human who works through failures, there lives a Naskar - wherever there is a human who lends a caring hand to those in distress, there lives a Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Die my friend, die in love so that you may live for eternity in the heart of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“They may kill my body, but how will they kill my soul which lives in the veins of humanitarians across the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Plight of A Humanitarian (The Sonnet)

My dear people of earth,
I die everyday so that your children can live.
My dear people of earth,
You've been selfish for long now it's time to give.
My dear people of earth,
I struggle everyday with your interest on top.
My dear people of earth,
Enough of this tribalism now it's time to grow up.
My dear people of earth,
I'm really tired and weary righting all wrong.
My dear people of earth,
Join me in making a world where we all belong.
I promise I don't want much from you.
All I ask is that you bid your sectarianism adieu.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“I prefer to sit on the sidewalk and share a hotdog with a homeless person than sit at a fancy restaurant and have dinner with a billionaire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“I'd rather die a martyr than live as a maggot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“I have a dream of an akhand prithvi - an undivided earth. I will perish, but the dream will live on through generations to come till it is fully realized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“The answer to the problems of our world is not more armed intervention, but intervention of the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“There's no humanitarian, only human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“We are not creatures, we are creators.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“That people choose friendships and alliances based on political, religious, moral convictions; instead of basing on a shared sense of humour and a shared sense of compassion, is testament to how backwards and senile we are as a collective society. Politics, religion, and morals, are naturally divisive because they are built on specific background types. A sense of humour and compassion: these are universal, and people from all backgrounds can be united by these. People are actively looking into the world for reasons to see what they believe to be wrong in others, and huddling together in their small groups; rather than actively looking to find what they can laugh at together. Or what they can help, together.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“All my beliefs, all my ideas, all my dreams revolve around one thing and one thing alone - the uplift of people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“I am an addiction most dangerous, keep children away from my works. If you want them to grow up self-centric, make sure they never hear my words.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“It ain't time for comfort, it ain't time for leisure, not yet anyways. It's time for work – uncorrupted, unvarnished, untainted humanitarian work.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Always say, I am love, I am life, I am the answer to all human strife.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Humanitarian fleet professionals are the most crucial life savers charged with the responsibility of moving life saving people with life saving products to people whose lives need to be saved.”
― Victor Manan Nyambala

“Doing God's work and doing God's propaganda are two different things. And the world has enough propaganda as it is - what the world needs is God's work - what this world needs is service - service not to the idea of God, but to the helpless and destitute - service to those who have nowhere to turn to. This, my friend, is called practical divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“The greatest humanitarians are silent humanitarians, who live their mission with zero claim to applause.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Humanitarianism may be appropriate during an emergency phase but beyond that it is counter-productive.”
― Alexander Betts, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System