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I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. -- Paul Farmer
In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda. -- Kofi Annan
Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income. -- Andy Serkis
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time. -- Immaculee Ilibagiza
I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. -- Miep Gies
The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
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
Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved. -- Dalai Lama
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives. -- Michel Chossudovsky
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport. -- Naomi Benaron
I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life. -- Romeo Dallaire
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act. -- Allyson Schwartz
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this. -- Tony Greig
The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds. -- Bill Frist
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
I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering? -- Naomi Campbell
What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia. -- Susan Meiselas
My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me. -- Patrick J. Adams
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God. -- RomÃ©o Dallaire
The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them. -- Tony Greig
Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy. -- Paul Kagame
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. -- Joanna Lumley
Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda. -- Naomi Benaron
Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before. -- Paul Kagame
Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences. -- Lee Siegel
The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation. -- Paul Kagame
For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda. -- Paul Kagame
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. -- Jim Fowler
Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas. -- Robert Zoellick
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect. -- Stephen Kinzer
The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception. -- John Rucyahana
Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same. -- Paul Kagame
It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda. -- Paul Kagame
Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
I think the only value of 'Hotel Rwanda' is the fact that it keeps the Rwandan genocide alive, but as far as content, it's Hollywood. -- Romeo Dallaire
It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security. -- Paul Kagame
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I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life. -- Romeo Dallaire
We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda's got a fucking lactose intolerance?! -- Chris Rock
Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
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
Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great. -- Mo Ibrahim
Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives. -- Paul Kagame
(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
We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help. -- William J. Clinton
Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish. -- Paul Kagame
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. -- Eric Alterman
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction? -- Marcel Ophuls
We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God. -- RomÃ©o Dallaire
Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal. -- Wole Soyinka
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God. -- Romeo Dallaire
The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically. -- RomÃ©o Dallaire
The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically. -- RomÃ©o Dallaire
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
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
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure, of seeing the other. Of knowing, of feeling, of being with the other. And when that's removed, then politics can become genocidal. -- James Orbinski
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. -- Jello Biafra
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future. -- Thabo Mbeki
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. -- John Pomfret
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. -- Philip Gourevitch
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

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