Genocide Quotes - Page 4

• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Europe, Ideas

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• We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

  John McCain

  Home, Winning, Iraq

  John McCain's speech at the MSNBC's Republican first presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Issues, People, Generations

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• So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

  Sister Souljah

  White, Gang Members, Why Not

  "In Her Own Disputed Words; Transcript of Interview That Spawned Souljah's Story". Interview with David Mills, The Washington Post, June 16, 1992.

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• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Two, Iraq, Use

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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• For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Germany, Able, Realizing

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• Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Perpetrators, Postmodernism, Post Modernism

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Allies, United States

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• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Giving, Community, Troops

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• But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Views, Europe, Armenia

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• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Russia, Media, Baggage

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• The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Armenia, Crime

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

  Eric Greitens

  Pain, Compassion, People

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• Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

  Arthur Eddington

  May, Matter, Process

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• This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

  Park Geun-hye

  Years, Yugoslavia, Iraq

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• Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

  Matt Damon

  Soccer, Rain, Fire

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• Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, Government

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

  Edward Hoagland

  Opportunity, Land, Tribes

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

  Pope Francis

  People, Firsts, Armenians

  "Pope Francis Speaks Of 'Genocide' In Armenia Visit". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

  Kendrick Meek

  Years, People, Justice

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• If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Cancer, Mean, Priorities

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• Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Chinese, Vietnam, Terrible

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• Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

  Ross Martin

  College, Firsts, Watches

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• It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Film, Made, Reviews

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