Genocide Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Tom Allen

  Past, Government, Citizens

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• As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

  Gordon Smith

  Effort, President, Bail

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• I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

  Michael Moore

  Hate, America, Shooting

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• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Skating On Thin Ice, World, Flu

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• 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.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Dad, Wall, Berlin

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Iran, World

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• In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.

  Stephen Daldry

  War, Issues, Years

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• Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

  Steven Emerson

  Religious, Doctrine, World

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• Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

  Jon Porter

  Home, Holocaust, Community

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• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Loss, Men

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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

  Abhorrent, Slavery, Unions

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Military, War

  "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.

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• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Past, Gaps, Generations

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

  James L. Barksdale

  Past, Pushing Through, Answers

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• Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations of Europe during the Second World War. The Jewish people thus loses its martyr status, and the State of Israel, whose establishing was approved by the world under the impression of an alleged 'unparalleled genocide,' would lose its legitimacy.

  Jurgen Graf

  War, Israel, Europe

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• The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Evil, Holocaust, Crime

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• In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

  Roberto Benigni

  Country, Holocaust, Humanity

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• You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Religious, War, Political Differences

  "The Devil's Advocate". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1952.

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• To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

  Eliza Haywood

  Lessons, Firsts, Given

  Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.58, Oxford University Press

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• When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Lessons, Financial

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• The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Awakening, Consciousness, Bosnians

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

  Kaz Cooke

  Children, Thinking, Support

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• The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act.  What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other.  Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other.  And when that's removed, then politics
  can become genocidal.

  James Orbinski

  Knowing, Political, Feelings

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