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On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. -- Eliot Engel
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. -- John Shimkus
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians -- Talaat Pasha
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to. -- Arshile Gorky
We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians? -- Adolf Hitler
Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians? -- Adolf Hitler
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
Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans. -- Kurban Said
It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide. -- Kim Kardashian
The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. -- Adam Schiff
Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks. -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. -- Woody Allen
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays. -- Kim Kardashian
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. -- Alan Hovhaness
I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it. -- Khloe Kardashian
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks. -- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless. -- Kim Kardashian
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
I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers. -- Khloe Kardashian
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book -- William Saroyan
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
The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis. -- Henry Grunwald
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
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. -- Chris Bohjalian
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much. -- Jack Kevorkian
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War. -- Chris Bohjalian
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it. -- Alan Hovhaness
It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give. -- William Saroyan
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. -- Sebastian Junger
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
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. -- Jerry Costello
Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again. -- Woodrow Wilson
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race...After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians? -- Adolf Hitler
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians. -- Fulcher of Chartres
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? -- Chris Bohjalian
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. -- Serj Tankian
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
The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be. -- Winston Churchill
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
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then. -- Hector Hugh Munro
In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian race. In six months nearly a million Armenians have been killed. The number of victims and the manner of their destruction are without parallel in Modern History. -- Herbert Adams Gibbons
We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war! -- Michael Jackson
I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it. -- William Saroyan
New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world. -- Federico Garcia Lorca

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