Genocide Quotes - page 2

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? (Chris Bohjalian)
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. View quote
Chris Bohjalian
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking Power, i. e., through fostering democratic freedom. View quote
Rudolph Rummel
The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. View quote
Adam Schiff
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations. View quote
Adam Schiff
Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. View quote
Adam Schiff
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide. View quote
Bianca Jagger
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. View quote
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. View quote
Janine di Giovanni
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. View quote
Jeremiah Wright
We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide. (Kendrick Meek)
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. View quote
Lakhdar Brahimi
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. View quote
Linda Chavez
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth. View quote
Naomi Benaron
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me. View quote
Patrick J. Adams
Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again. View quote
Tim Walz
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. View quote
Tim Wise
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. View quote
Timothy Radcliffe
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. View quote
Tom Allen
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people. (Tony Greig)
Mankind has advanced. Human progress is ceaseless. We can look at Bosnia or Zaire or Rwanda and conclude that building just societies is a fool's errand. We are always, despite our advances, only one sin away from slipping into the abyss of terror and ignorance. But that is not so. Generations upon generations have driven the human race farther and farther from darkness. Past episodes of abominable human cruelty are kept vivid in the memories of succeeding generations. "Never again," is the admonition passed from the survivors of the Holocaust to their descendants and to us all. And although such an important reminder will not always prevent the occurrence of cruelty and violence even at levels approaching genocide, the civilized world is more inclined to organize opposition to such tragedies if not as early as we should, at least sooner than we once would have. View quote
John McCain
Scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence .. We have supported, we are supporting and we shall support revolutionary movements in Latin America. .. We feel very well outside the O.A.S., in fact better than inside. The O.A.S. is an organization that is bound to disappear. View quote
Fidel Castro
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. View quote
Howard Zinn
I personally would say that the quickest way to wipe out a group of people is to put them on a soul food diet. One of the tragedies is that the very folks in the black community who are most sophisticated in terms of the political realities in this country are nonetheless advocates of "soul food.” They will lay down a heavy rap on genocide in America with regard to black folks, then walk into a soul food restaurant and help the genocide along. View quote
Dick Gregory