Genocide Quotes - Page 3

• Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten.

  Ronald Reagan

  Holocaust, Armenia, Lessons

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.376, Best Books on

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• As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of political leaders, and the lethal consequences of totalising ideologies.

  Richard A. Falk

  Political, Leader, Humanity

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, White

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

  Tony Greig

  Team, Two, People

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.

  James Bryce

  Practice, Government, Empires

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• The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

  Herbert Hoover

  Christian, School, Sunday

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• 800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

  Djemal Pasha

  Past, Government, Cleansing

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• It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Black, Plans

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Holocaust, Trying, Gold

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

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• I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

  Serj Tankian

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

  "‘Screamers’ and Genocide: A Talk With Serj Tankian From System of a Down". Interview with Richard (RJ) Eskow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2006.

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• - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Ukraine, Hands

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• Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

  George Orwell

  Ukraine, People, Majority

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

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• If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Men, White Man, Complaining

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• I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Action, Armenians, Happened

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• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Stupid, Mean, Government

  "The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon". The CNN Interview, ac360.blogs.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

  Alveda King

  Men, Generations, Guarantees

  "Alveda King Speaks at Glenn Beck's DC Rally" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.

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• We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Issues, Political

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• Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

  Bianca Jagger

  Government, Law, People

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• Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Order, Numbers

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• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  Bruce Sterling

  War, Clouds, Mushrooms

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• Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

  James Prescott Joule

  Believe, Demand, Force

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• I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Years, Iraq, Giving

  Interview with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show", September 13, 2005.

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• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Leadership, Years, Turkeys

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• These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Christian, Party, Home

  Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.

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• To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

  Serj Tankian

  War, Iraq, Occupation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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