Genocide Quotes - Page 11

• Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Eye, Blue, Pale Skin

  John C. Hammerback, Richard J. Jensen, Jose Angel Gutierrez (1985). “A War of Words: Chicano Protest in the 1960s and 1970s”, Praeger Pub Text

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• So, I took lessons, and I love to shoot now. It's a lot of fun.

  Reba McEntire

  Fun, Lessons

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 26, 2005.

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• 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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• Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Religious, Children

  Talk at the University of Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Holocaust, Has Beens

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• The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with Nazi Germany and good evidence that the Germans were more advanced in nuclear physics, and we had to get the bomb first. But then there was the use of that dreadful weapon, or instrument of genocide, and many of the more sensitive scientists turned quickly into anti - nuclear people - and very effective ones.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Destiny, People, Physics

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse.

  Payam Akhavan

  School, Reflection, Empathy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

  William Godwin

  Years, Lessons, Youth

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.206

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

  Jan Schakowsky

  Atrocities, Jew, Idle

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• Some will say: "Why should we celebrate the birth of colonialism, of oppression, of cultural genocide through Canada 150?" It's 2017. In spite of the genocide we faced via the residential school system, and all we have endured from colonialism and control, from 1876 to this day, we're still here. We need to show the country and the world that we are still here.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Country, School, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

  Edward Hopper

  Vision, Elements, Replacements

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.

  Saul Alinsky

  Religious, Political, Independence

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• What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

  Angelina Grimke

  Crush, Men, Race

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.159, Penguin

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• The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Devil

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Father, Blessed

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• I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out.... It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador." I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn.... It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.

  Samantha Power

  Falling In Love, Love You, Writing

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• The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political fraud, the principal beneficiaries of which are the State of Israel and international Zionism, and whose principal victims are the German people - but not their leaders - and the entire Palestinian people.

  Robert Faurisson

  Lying, Israel, People

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• If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is one of the most racist countries on earth, and it has proven it during several of the genocides that have taken place here. But there is no perception, no clue, and no understanding of what racism actually is. And there is zero self-criticism.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Taken, Racism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Home, Rights

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• Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Makeup, People

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• There are also people that still choose to support racist rhetoric because they feel white dominance in America is slipping through their fingers. To them, "diversity" is a codeword for white genocide. They claim that their "homelands" are being overrun by minorities and are desperate for solutions that ensure their "white survival." This fear, of course, is irrational and solely based on a loss of white power and control.

  Christian Picciolini

  Loss, People, Diversity

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Life, Lessons, Rewards

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.49, Prabhat Prakashan

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