Genocide Quotes - Page 16

• Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

  David Harsanyi

  Evil, Etc, Oppression

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• They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.

  Augustin Misago

  Scary, Catholic, Church

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• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Gentleman, Tables, Eras

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• We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.

  Bo Burnham

  Moon, Blue, Turkeys

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2011

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• ...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.

  Eugene Richards

  Photography, War, Believe

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• If Barack Obama's policies, as he just put the new stages through into operation, if that policy is allowed, you're going to see, open, Hitler-style genocide applied to a large section of the population, who are considered "not fit to survive," "not fit to live"! Just like Hitler, "lives unfit to live."

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Style, Population, Fit

  Source: larouchepac.com

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• The situation in Europe is much more advanced, in terms of pro-genocide trends, than in the United States, yet. But we're going very rapidly in that direct, and Obama is the specific driver of that crime. I mean, this is a guy waiting for his Nuremberg trial: That's what this President is!

  Lyndon LaRouche

  Mean, Europe, Waiting

  Source: larouchepac.com

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• When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

  Jordan Peele

  Beautiful, People, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity like the Darfur genocide, veganism is your only chance to stand up for what's right several times a day, every day, for the rest of your life!

  Gary Yourofsky

  People, Rest Of Your Life, Lips

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came about because of the severity of the country's problems and the resulting high proportion of women in the parliament and among professional caregivers, which had a positive effect on policy.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Population, Caregivers

  Source: www.who.int

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• Administration officials, in fact, have repeatedly condemned ISIS for its treatment of religious minorities, including Christians. But a bipartisan resolution now moving through Congress calls on the administration to go further and say ISIS is guilty of genocide.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Lynching, Land

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

  Richard Owen

  Men, Progress, Inquiry

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• I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

  William Brewster

  Forgiveness, Heart, Godly

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• An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

  Humphrey Lyttelton

  Mother, Uncles, Should Have

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• I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

  Alberto Juantorena

  School, Lessons, Physical Education

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• Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

  Al Jourgensen

  Lessons, Shapes, Pay

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• It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

  L. Neil Smith

  Race, Effort, Individual

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". L. Neil Smith's remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.

  Kim Young-sam

  Military, Korea, Confrontation

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• The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Character, Ideas, Progress

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4

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• The intrusion of history is not just theoretical. It is also the legacy of being an accomplice or a victim, or just an onlooker. In each case, history entails the uncomfortable presence of earlier unresolved roles.

  Charles S. Maier

  Ukraine, Legacy, Roles

  Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• The letter writers span the spectrum from left to right. Members say they don't want this to become a partisan political issue. In fact, there are reasons administration officials have been cautious in making a genocide declaration.

  Tom Gjelten

  Issues, Political, Facts

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

  Tom Shadyac

  War, Believe, Hunger Poverty

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• Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Historical, Atrocities, Groups

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They suffered genocide, war, poverty, and half the population was sent to labor camps. But they were determined to get into space first.

  George Meyer

  War, Space, Population

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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