Ishmael Beah Quotes About Civil War

Quotes about: Civil War

• Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.

  Ishmael Beah

  Hurt, War, Trusting Each Other

• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

  Ishmael Beah

  Country, Children, War

• This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

  Ishmael Beah

  War, Trusting Each Other, People

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.37, Macmillan

• In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

  Ishmael Beah

  War, Years, Two

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