#armenia

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#armenian genocide #genocide #recognise #time

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#am #armenian #country #everything #family

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian. ↗

— Woody Allen

#commit #depressed #next #suicide #tried

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#courage #culture #different world #faith #generations

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#about #armenian #bee #bee gees #freedom

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#biggest #folk #making #really #records

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters. ↗

— William Saroyan

#american #armenia #armenian #writers #family

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#administration #approach #armenian #armenian genocide #confirmed

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#armenian #armenian genocide #been #compelling #denial

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds