Sudan Quotes

• Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.

  Eric Reeves

  Letting Go, Country, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility

  Jamal Mahjoub

  Country, Memories, Crucible

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• I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

  Emmanuel Jal

  People, South, Knows

  "China, hip-hop and the new Sudan". Interview with Peter Shadbolt, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

  Pope Francis

  Republic, Praying, South

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• Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Economic Value, Iran, Oil

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• Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

  Jan Egeland

  Government, Should, Disarmament

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• The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

  Linda Chavez

  Literature, Atrocities, Institutions

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• The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

  John Linder

  Country, Rights, Years

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• As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Atrocities, Genocide, Jew

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• Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

  Al Roker

  Country, New Orleans, America

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• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Christian, Home, Fate

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• When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Mother, Rap, People

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• I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Writing, America, Sight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

  George Clooney

  Needs, World, Firsts

  "George Clooney arrested in Sudan protest", www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

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• There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

  Eric Reeves

  Issues, Suffering, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  Bill Gates

  Past, People, Awful

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

  Tom Allen

  Cutting, Ties, Osama Bin Laden

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• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Drinking, School

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.

  Barack Obama

  War, Space, Terrorist

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

  Elliott Abrams

  Agency, United States, Flow

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• It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Country, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest in upholding the stated mission of the panel. It's just like the Senate Ethics Committee.

  Argus Hamilton

  Rights, Cuba, Joining

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• The south really wants Abyei; they have a core constituency who reside in the area who believe that Abyei belongs to the south. There are a number of those sons of Abyei in high positions of government in South Sudan, so it's pretty hard for South Sudan to just walk away.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Believe, Son, Government

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• Every indication is that the Sudanese government will be defining it as an Arab, Muslim country. But there are also a lot of Christians and a lot of people, like the Nuba, who are not Arab. And that is why it is going to be problematic that Sudan will be defined in this way.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Christian, Country, Government

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• There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei. The misperception arose because when the peace agreement was signed in 2005, Abyei accounted for a quarter of Sudan's oil production. Since then, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague defined major oil fields to lie outside Abyei. They're in the north now, not even up for grabs, and they account for one percent of the oil in Sudan. The idea that it's "oil-rich Abyei" is out of date.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Lying, Agreement, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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