Indigenous Rights Quotes

“My Earth, Your Earth
(The Sonnet)

My America fosters the
spirit of self-correction,
Your America lies in the
continuation of exploitation.

My England lives in a willful
drive for making amends,
Your England lies in deliberate
denial of historic mess.

My Australia battles to
assimilate those once wronged,
Your Australia boasts proudly
atrocious plunders as tradition.

My India is the most radiant
beacon of multiculturalism,
Your India is a septic tank
of prehistoric nationalism.

I wish I could tell you, you and I
are the same, but we are not.
My earth is a celebration of people,
Your earth is chained to dead customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“If the germans have no right to take pride in their past, neither do the british or the americans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings, Mayflower destroyed a living continent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“My America fosters the
spirit of self-correction,
Your America lies in the
continuation of exploitation.

My England lives in a willful
drive for making amends,
Your England lies in deliberate
denial of historic mess.

My Australia battles to
assimilate those once wronged,
Your Australia boasts proudly
atrocious plunders as tradition.

I wish I could tell you, you and I
are the same, but we are not.
My earth is a celebration of people,
Your earth is chained to dead customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“My America fosters the
spirit of self-correction,
Your America lies in the
continuation of exploitation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Blood and Blunder
(The Sonnet)

The world is filled with atrocious holidays,
Columbus Day, Australia Day and Thanksgiving.
Holidays steeped in blood and blunder, are
passed on proudly as occasion of merrymaking.

Imagine celebrating 9/11 as a day of freedom,
Yet colonizers do exactly that without shame.
And these animal holidays are a thousand times
more atrocious than the crash of nine eleven.

Nine eleven is a ghastly stain upon history,
there is no doubt or question about that.
But what about the infinitely larger stains,
inflicted, respected and celebrated by cowards!

Human rights can never prevail till we
dismantle every false celebration.
Animals find honor in blood and blunder,
We become human through course correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Imperials rise upon indigenous fall,
declaring themselves as light-bringer.
Native tears form kohinoor on the crown,
Blood is but cologne to the colonizer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Native tears form kohinoor on the crown, blood is but cologne to the colonizer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Deutschland über alles (The Sonnet)

If the germans have no right
to take pride in their past,
neither do the british
or the americans.

In fact, the scale of british and american
atrocities, surpasses the SS many folds.
'Deutschland über alles' is 'jingle bells',
compared to british and american holocaust.

Yet germany had the human decency
to dump its horrific national anthem,
while colonial pride is still dominant,
across much of america and england.

Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations,
a concept yet foreign to Buck House and Uncle Sam.
When you are the largest manufacturer of massacre,
making amends should be your existential anthem.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Radical inhumanity warrants radical reparations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Refugees & Colonizers (The Sonnet)

Refugees carry culture,
Colonizers carry infection.
Colonizers are the virus,
Refugees are civilization.

Refugees live on hope,
Colonizers thrive on greed.
Refugees dream of acceptance,
Colonizers dream supremacy.

Refugees are the true free and brave,
they carry within the silver lining.
There's nothing brave about genocide,
no matter the whitewashed thanksgiving.

Refugees are practicing healers,
living testament of wounds to ointment.
Colonizers are proof of darwinism,
that from monkeys comes the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“9/11 destroyed two bustling buildings,
Mayflower destroyed a living continent.
You cannot conceive a nation in liberty
by wiping out a living civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Crime against first nations is the first crime against humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Colonialism is cannibalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Yankee Dongle (Pilgrim Sonnet)

Yankee dongle crossed the pond,
sailing on a ship called Mayflower.
He plucked and tucked a feather in cap,
and called himself the lone ranger.

Yankee dongle made many westerns,
to maintain the narrative in favor.
Propaganda is a key apparatus,
when you're out to roam as killers.

Yankee dongle ran away from home,
he had trouble with his tyrant father.
So he sought out a land of his own,
where he was the new face of terror.

Yankee dongle is his father's son,
same vision, but 100 times the cunning.
Thus, while his father is losing grip,
pilgrim spirit continues transgressing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Refugees carry culture,
Colonizers carry infection.
Colonizers are the virus,
Refugees are civilization.

Refugees are practicing healers,
living testament of wounds to ointment.
Colonizers are proof of darwinism,
that from monkeys comes the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“On a planet with 300 million species and 7 billion humans, one man determining the future is a dangerous idea. It is dangerous for the Earth, because the anthropocentric, reductionist, and mechanistic assumptions by which Gates is guided are at the root of the ecological crisis that has brought us to the brink.”
― Vandana Shiva, One Earth, One Humanity vs. the 1%

“You should be more disgusted at Churchill and Columbus than Hitler, the fact that you are not, shows how ludicrously little you're aware of humanitarian disasters.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The West broke the world, now the human race gotta resurrect the world, offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike - but we can do nothing at all, till we decolonize our mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Pilgrims and Nazis (Sonnet 2220)

The terrorists you call pilgrims,
did not immigrate, they invaded,
pillaged and plundered a continent,
they even plagiarized its name into
a symbol of atrocity and violation,

just like the nazis heisted
a holy symbol from the east,
and turned the sacred Swastika
into the global icon of hate.

History books are all messed up,
none teaches the history of humans -
world history was written by animals,
to maintain their narrative unchallenged.

The West broke the world, now
the human race gotta resurrect the world,
offspring of the terrorists and terrorized alike -
but we can do nothing at all,
till we decolonize our mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When I use the term colonizer, I refer only to those who take pride in colonial exploits, and not to those accountable human beings who happen to descend from colonial ancestors. Colonialism is the enemy, it has nothing to do with skin or ancestry. As long as you stand true on ethics of equality and mettle of character, rather than boasting pedigree and archaic tradition, you are a champion of humanity, no matter your ethnicity, ancestry, profession or status.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Maps of the world are whitewashed,
history of the world is whitewashed,
ethics of the world are whitewashed,
knowledge of the world is whitewashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Colonialism was a mass extinction event, yet no textbook has the spine to bear the burden.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You know how the dinosaurs went extinct - they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves, clearly white men are the apex predator of earth, so there's no point of us being!

Asteroids wiped out the dinosaurs, caucasteroids wiped out civilizations. Colonialism was a mass extinction event, yet no textbook has the spine to bear the burden.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Earth belongs to the Natives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Earth belongs to the Natives, settlers are welcome, but as participant, not head of state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Somos indígenas, somos indomables - you can make us houseless, but never homeless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Landback is the mother of all movements, it contains the plight of all First Humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Colonizers are the second class citizens, every land first belongs to the indigenous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Colonizers are the second class citizens,
every land first belongs to the indigenous.
Landback is the mother of all movements,
it contains the plight of all First Humans.

Women are indigenous to their own body,
Palestinians are indigenous to palestine;
uncultured crowns and criminal uncles
have no jurisdiction over our Earthright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop