59 Quotes by Abhijit Naskar about Biases
"Prejudice conquered is world conquered."
"Sonnet of ProgressWhere the nation ends,There the world begins.Where the self fades,There community begins.Where luxury withers,There equality begins.Where biases shrink,There truth begins.Where pride dies,There growth begins.Where rigidity ends,There life begins.Such true life is forever revered.Prejudice conquered is world conquered."
"Replacing one tyrannical paradigm with another is not progress, it's only recurring regress."
"When I was at university, my dorm was in a red light area. Often after class on my way to the dorm, I would sit with those sisters of mine and listen to their stories and struggles for hours - just listening to them pouring their heart out gave me a kind of uncorrupted bliss that couldn't be explained with human words. You don't need to be a practicing physician or psychiatrist to ease the pain of others, listening to them as a human being crossing prejudice is enough."
"In a civilized world even bigots have a voice, but in a bigoted world, the only place where you can find reason and inclusion is prison."
"Stereotypes die hard, but they must, otherwise people will."
"The Anti-Stereotype SonnetBlack is not evil.White is not trash.Brown is not illegal.Muslims don’t crash.Women ain't weak.Jews ain't greedy.Men ain't playboys.Queer ain't sickly.Hijab is not oppression.Hourglass ain't beauty.Faith is not delusion.Atheists don't lack morality.Assumptions only reveal shallowness.Beyond stereotypes lies humaneness."
"Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the person to do the job. That is why seeking truth requires keeping your innate instincts and biases in check."
"A police officer oblivious to their errors and shortcomings is no different from the Gestapo. Such police may be suitable in Nazi Germany, Imperialist Britain, Confederate America or the Amazon jungle, but they have no place in a society of civilized beings."