#genocide

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#because #crimes #culture #effort #genocide

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#armenian #armenian genocide #community #ensure #event

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#biological #classes #conviction #discrimination #distinction

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. ↗

— Mike Norton

#buddha #buddha-nature #buddhism #capitalism #communism

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#armenia #armenian #armenian genocide #common #counterparts

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#nothing #thanksgiving #toast

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#just #realizing #were #you

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#chamber #create #gas #genocide #germany