Genocide Quotes

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

Jack Schwartz

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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

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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Simon Wiesenthal

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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

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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 U.S. support for these policies.

Norman Finkelstein

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

Bianca Jagger

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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

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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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

Andrea Dworkin

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Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

Sigmar Gabriel

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My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Chris Bohjalian

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In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

Noam Chomsky

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

Bianca Jagger

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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

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If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?

Gary Johnson

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

John Major

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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

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I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

Cornel West

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If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Mark Foley

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At the October 1933 proceedings of the League of Nations in Madrid, Lemkin mounted a valiant effort to persuade the gathered ambassadors to define and agree to punish the crime of what we now call genocide. He failed.

Terry Glavin

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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Samantha Power

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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

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Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot about the country and its history.

Michael Paterniti

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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

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