230 Quotes About Genocide
- Author Philip Gourevitch
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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.
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- Author Janet Campbell Hale
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If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.
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- Author Richard J. Evans
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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.
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- Author M.B. Dallocchio
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When you’re persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information – or that information is distorted – it’s far worse than physically killing someone. It, instead, induces a form of psychological death. How can you truly be alive, how can you genuinely breathe, when everyone around you believes that you either don’t exist or are dead?
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- Author Terry Eagleton
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Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called "mass MURDER" and not "mass MANSLAUGHTER.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.
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- Author Mwanandeke Kindembo
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The list of genocides committed on Earth are endless, the fact that we never learned or know about them does not mean they did not exist.
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- Author John Ross
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The downside to gun control is genocide.
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