230 Quotes About Genocide

Las épocas viejas nunca desaparecen completamente y todas las heridas, aun las más antiguas, manan sangre todavía.

Matansa. It means massacre in the Chamorro language, and is a nickname for the village of San Roque in the northern part of the island of Saipan that endured the most brutal slaughtering as a punishment for Chamorro resistance by Imperial Japan in WWII, which was part of an ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign that almost completely wiped out the Chamorro population from the face of the earth. San Roque is my family’s village.

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred,

What are commonly known as the Nuremberg Racial Laws should in actuality be referred to as the Cold Spring Harbor, NY laws.

ওরা আমার ছেলেটাকে মেরে ফেলেছে হিরোশিমায়। আমার মাকে খুন করেছে জেরুজালেমের রাস্তায়। আমার বোনটা এক সাদা কুত্তার বাড়িতে বাঁদি ছিলো। তার প্রভু তাকে ধর্ষণ করে মেরেছে আফ্রিকাতে। আমার বাবাকে হত্যা করে মেরেছে ভিয়েতনামে। আর আমার ভাই, তাকে ফাঁসীতে ঝুলিয়ে মেরেছে ওরা। কারণ সে মানুষকে ভীষণ ভালোবাসতো।

If human is capable of conducting genocide,no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs.

The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Great cutting edge,indifferent to tissueGreat stamping mass,indifferent to the cry of crushed bones,Grant us your hardness:We would be as prompt to sufferAs you to inflict our suffering!Light flashes outfrom your whirling bladesHeads bow to the earthbefore your harvesting:Heads of grain, heads of men and women.Grant us your hardness and bright surface.Be with us in the hour of our processing.- Hymn to Steel: for 5 million human voices