Quotes about Rwanda

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The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles. — Jean Hatzfeld, Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan-Thérèse Nyirabayovu — Karl Maier, Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helpe — James Riordan
We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past. — John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted — John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in R — Rick Warren, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. — Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:)Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing — Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world. — Jean Hatzfeld, Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, an — John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit is with the spirits — Roméo Dallaire
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human rig — Nelson Mandela
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine — Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor — Paul Rusesabagina
Rwanda’s Muslim community is an example of a group (a full community rather than isolated individuals) that resisted the — Rachel Hilary Brown, Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech
The UN lacked the ability to act without the support of its more powerful members, notably the United States. The Americ — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the uni — Bill Clinton
The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the — John Rucyahana, The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones