39 Quotes by Paul Rusesabagina

We saw the whole world closing their eyes and ears, leaving us alone to thugs and gangsters. The genocide took away a million people in a 100 days.

Africa needs you, ... to break out a dialogue. I'm telling you this because you in the West are lucky, you vote for your own leaders.

The whole country was smelling of dead bodies, flies. I went to see family. My mother-in-law was dead, her six children killed,

The most abusive words that I hear are 'never again,' ... Have we learned from history? I do not know.

I told them that if I am with you, I'll always regret what I've done and I don't ever want to regret,

For five minutes I was speechless, ... Then I told them that I didn't know how to use this gun, but even if I did I wouldn't kill these people

Talking about it is a relief. My message: Take Rwanda as a wake-up call. We need to stop the killing. The best solution is to talk and share. We ask the (United States) administration to intervene.

The world ignored Rwanda when we really needed it. Unfortunately, even now the world is still ignoring us.

If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners,