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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. -- Andrea Dworkin
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
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. -- Jack Schwartz
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide? -- Adolf Hitler
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. -- James Lovelock
It was always so important to my dad for us to understand about the Genocide and to know about our family history. -- Kim Kardashian
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
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie. -- Edward Abbey
It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide. -- Kim Kardashian
Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world. -- Ann Clwyd
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. -- Philip Gourevitch
Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war! -- Raphael Lemkin
The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America. -- Adam Schiff
The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me. -- Maajid Nawaz
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. -- George Carlin
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination -- Andrea Dworkin
Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy. -- Wade Davis
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. -- Alcee Hastings
Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out. -- Malcolm Fraser
May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam. -- Julie Burchill
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
The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide. -- Mark Geragos
When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure -- Pope Francis
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity. -- Judith Butler
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? -- Catharine MacKinnon
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. -- Noam Chomsky
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. -- Janine di Giovanni
You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again. -- Tim Walz
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby? -- Jose Angel Gutierrez
A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world. -- Pope John Paul II
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide. -- Jon Corzine
I say to all those leaders: Do not look the other way, do not hesitate ... It is within your power to prevent a genocide. -- Nelson Mandela
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. -- Jonathan Haidt
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
It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it. -- Michael Moore
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
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
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
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
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet. -- Fidel Castro
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 go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [. . .] and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people -- John Trudell
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. -- Jon Corzine
Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide. -- Immaculee Ilibagiza
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
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
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power. -- Kaz Cooke
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men. -- Niger Innis
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. -- Tim Wise
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. -- Allyson Schwartz
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. -- Michael Ignatieff
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes. -- John Prendergast
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
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
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
Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I. -- Gerald R. Ford
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation. -- Wole Soyinka
They'll never know we were here. -- Danny M. Cohen
Rumors are the children of truth. -- Danny M. Cohen
Do as you would be done by -- Jennifer Dance
THE SADNESS IN OUR HEARTS SEEMS ENDLESS -- Widad Akrawi
The downside to gun control is genocide. -- John Ross
It is not power that corrupts but fear. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP! -- Widad Akrawi
UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS -- Widad Akrawi
America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. -- Elie Wiesel
If I look at the mass I will never act. -- Mother Teresa
We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past. -- John Rucyahana
Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility. -- Rhonda Fink-Whitman
...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. -- Noam Chomsky
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. -- Arundhati Roy
I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women -- Widad Akrawi
Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world. -- Henry Clay
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN -- Widad Akrawi
No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people. -- Taner Akçam
Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes. -- Mike Klepper
If human is capable of conducting genocide,no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. -- Toba Beta
I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others, -- James D. Sass
I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis. -- Widad Akrawi
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. -- Mike Norton
One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist. -- Michael Barnett
If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it. -- James D. Sass
The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception. -- John Rucyahana
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. -- Rick Warren
..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. -- Bill Clinton
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In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation. -- Taner Akçam
The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity. -- Taner Akçam
We never talk about the second Thanksgiving. I think we should. It's a holiday where the Indian people were cold and the white people gave them blankets -- JOHNNY CORN
As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself. -- Taner Akçam
I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil. -- Jack D Forbes
We must recognize that if we feel helpless when facing the record of human depravity, there was always a point at which any particular scene of madness could have been stopped. -- Robert H. Abzug
Strain on the community -- That's a ridiculous arguement. Then nobody in the world should have children. I think asking people not to have children is just another form of genocide. -- Rebecca Lee
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What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime. -- Philip Gourevitch
(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed. -- Jared Diamond
The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. -- Bill Gates
As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again. -- Paul Theroux
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. -- Philip Gourevitch
Overriding all of them, however, was the memory of 1918, the belief that the Jews, wherever and whoever they might be, threatened to undermine the German war effort, by engaging in subversion, partisan activities, Communist resistance movements and much else besides. -- Richard J. Evans
Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy. -- Richard Weikart
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy. -- Sydney J. Harris
That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love? -- Deborah Meyler
Man is nature, nature man, and all crude and raw, stinking, vicious, evil. And holding that evil lightly because the collective mind refuses to recall the spring of mountains, the vault of seas and, of course, beside that, the puny murder of millions. -- John A. Williams
What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest. -- James Riordan
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas. -- Jared Diamond
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. -- Chief Seattle
This ain't rock 'n' roll; this is genocide -- David Bowie
Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination. -- Rob Brezsny
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous -- Joel C. Rosenberg
Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide. -- Dick Cheney
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. -- Bianca Jagger
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. -- John Major
America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary. -- Jim Jarmusch

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