Genocide Quotes

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.
Kim Kardashian

Time, Armenian, Recognise

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu

Evil, Happen, Again

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

Government, Against, Means

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin

Political, Social, However

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
James Lovelock

History, Bad, Capable

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Same, Problems, Against

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
Chinua Achebe

Desire, Leave, Days

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

Time, Today, Same

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, Wrong, Last

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
Atom Egoyan

Talk, Denial, Forgotten

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

Able, Realize, Create

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

Give, Another, Again

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

Stand, Nations, Aside

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

Marriage, Woman, Between

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Watch, Judged, Responded

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
Bianca Jagger

Time, Call, Ongoing

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

Law, Protect, Mandated

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

Government, Past, Serious

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
Jack Schwartz

Behavior, Attempt, Alter

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Catharine MacKinnon

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
John McCarthy

Loyalty, Getting, Jobs

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.
Jared Diamond

History, Evil, Understand

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
Jerry Costello

History, Human, Community

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

Working, Serious, Means

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Innocent, Policy, Mass

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, Win, Chaos

In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.
Stephen Daldry

Find, Speak, Act

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe

Truth, War, Made

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.
Adam Schiff

America, Armenian, Legacy

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, Cannot, Become

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