Genocide Quotes
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The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.
William Godwin
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Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.
Wole Soyinka
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Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
Terry Eagleton
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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
Edgar Hilsenrath
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If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.
Eric Greitens
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All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.
Casey Affleck
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For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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They will act in the name of a God they cannot hear, a God from whom they are more and more distant, and the result will be war, massacre, genocide, torture. In other words, the four faces of evil.
Eric Van Lustbader
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I think that, in Israel, the greatest fear that people have, and I have it, too, is fear of genocide.
Etgar Keret
