Genocide Quotes

• I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leader, Looks, Way

  "Excerpts: Mandela's Live 8 speech". news.bbc.co.uk. July 3, 2005.

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• Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, Political, Discrimination

  "Trouble and Strife", Issues 13-17 (p. 45), 1988.

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• A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Destruction, Annihilation

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• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dance, War, Evil

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• There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

  James Lovelock

  People, Deep Thought, Commit

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• You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

  Tim Walz

  Happens

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• We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

  Kendrick Meek

  Differences, Making A Difference, Save A Life

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• The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Bible, Atheist, Book

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• Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, History

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press

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• You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Years, Watches, Literature

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• An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong.

  Amira Hass

  Doe, World, Dimensions

  "Using the Holocaust to Ward Off Criticism" by Amira Hass, www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2005.

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• What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Power, Hands, Years

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• Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Government, People

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• 'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

  Jon Corzine

  Believe, Speaks Out, Rallying Cry

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• A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

  Pope John Paul II

  Eye, World, Process

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• 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.

  Adam Schiff

  Light, People, Shining

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• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

  John Trudell

  White, America, People

  "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.

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• A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Europe, Turkeys, People

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• Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suffering, Armenia, Helping

  Woodrow Wilson (1919). “Addresses of President Wilson: Boston, Mass., February 24, 1919. New York, N. Y., March 4, 1919”

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• Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Race, Population, Doctrine

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• Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

  Ronald Reagan

  Holocaust, Armenia, Lessons

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.376, Best Books on

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• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Stupid, Mean, Government

  "The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon". The CNN Interview, ac360.blogs.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

  Bianca Jagger

  Government, Law, People

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• But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "Who are you to judge me? You human beings who’ve had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit?! Is that a crime? People of the world!" "Well, if you put it that way, I think you’ve got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Dog, Sorry

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• I am ashamed of my nation.

  Djemal Pasha

  Armenian Genocide, Ashamed, Nations

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