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• Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

  Jerome Hines

  Past, Lessons, Cherish

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• There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Blood, America, Identity

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the United States within the UN prevents implementation. At the same time, several African leaders are being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity and participation in genocide: a double standard of sorts, given the impunity accorded to the West and Israel.

  Richard A. Falk

  Punishment, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

  Carter Glass

  Wisdom, Money, Men

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• Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Eye, Men, Teeth

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• While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.

  Aberjhani

  Love, War, Exercise

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Civilization, Defeat, Planets

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• The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

  Norman Davies

  Ukraine, Important, Purpose

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• At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.

  Joseph Stalin

  Real, Ukraine, Important

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• I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

  John Major

  Thinking, Cleansing, Nations

  "Major, the chicken turned hawk". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 1999.

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• Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Struggle, Ukraine

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• Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

  James Caan

  Beauty, Party, Guy

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Country, Sleep, Night

  William S. Burroughs (1992). “Esquire: The Magazine for Men”

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• Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

  Eliot Engel

  Holocaust, World, Anti Semitism

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• My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Support, Parent, Criminals

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

  Lech Walesa

  Race, Holocaust, Wish

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• As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

  Steven Pinker

  Long, Groups, World

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• I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Stubborn, Violent

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• By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Mean, Groups, Destruction

  Axis Rule in Occupied Europe preface (1944).

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• I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Holocaust

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

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• One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

  Samantha Power

  President, Needs, Faces

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• Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.

  Kim Harrison

  Communication, Magic, Hungry

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• For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

  Steven Pinker

  People, Calling, Care

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• To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

  Anne Rice

  Doors, Answers, Literature

  "The Vampire Lestat". Book by Anne Rice, 1985.

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