#genocide

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#bad people #capable #commit #evolutionary #genocide

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#genocide #germany #history #hitler #holocaust

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime. ↗

— Philip Gourevitch

#family

The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course! ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ideology #marxism #rwanda #rwandan-genocide #rwandan-patriotic-front

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

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#nothing #thanksgiving #toast

I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people. ↗

— Tony Greig

#business #business community #community #employed #genocide

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#against #color #genocide #government #hiv

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#against #believe #cry #genocide #mankind

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