--- title: "6 Genocide In Rwanda Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Genocide In Rwanda quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Genocide In Rwanda sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/david-rakoff-3308_beautiful-mind_for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automat_737556.jpg" --- > [“For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status, and in general, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-rakoff/for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automatically-said-that-i-would-opt/) [David Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-rakoff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/david-rakoff-3308_beautiful-mind_for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automat_737556.jpg) > [Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/payam-akhavan/helping-survivors-of-residential-schools-in-canada-is-not-the-same-as/) [Payam Akhavan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/payam-akhavan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/payam-akhavan-33674_apathy_helping-survivors-of-residential-schools_1097477.jpg) > [“The good performed by some of United Nations institutions, such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been outweighed by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-prager/the-good-performed-by-some-of-united-nations-institutions-such-as-the/) [Dennis Prager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-prager/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/dennis-prager-631_bad-people_the-good-performed-by-some-of-united-nat_1665854.jpg) > [“There were actual land sites all over the planet that should be very badly contaminated by lipofuscin, because their soil has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-were-actual-land-sites-all-over-the-planet-that-should-be-very/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/anonymous-1_glow-in-the-dark_there-were-actual-land-sites-all-over-th_1976302.jpg) > [“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-once-spoke-to-someone-who-had-survived-the-genocide-in-rwanda-and/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/christopher-hitchens-117_angst_i-once-spoke-to-someone-who-had-survived_2408199.jpg) > [The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samantha-power/the-story-of-u-s-policy-during-the-genocide-in-rwanda-is-not-a-story/) [Samantha Power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samantha-power/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/samantha-power-3969_complicity_the-story-of-u-s-policy-during-the-genoc_2566623.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/genocide-in-rwanda/#itemlist", "name": "Genocide In Rwanda Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status, and in general, I still would. But the spirit of the question is would I ever, and there are instances where I might. If immediate intervention would have circumvented the genocide in Rwanda or stopped the Janjaweed in Darfur, would I choose pacifism? Of course not. Scott Simon, the reporter for National Public Radio and a committed lifelong Quaker, has written that it took looking into mass graves in former Yugoslavia to convince him that force is sometimes the only option to deter our species' murderous impulses. While we're on the subject of the horrors of war, and humanity's most poisonous and least charitable attributes, let me not forget to mention Barbara Bush (that would be former First Lady and presidential mother as opposed to W's liquor-swilling, Girl Gone Wild, human ashtray of a daughter. I'm sorry, that's not fair. I've no idea if she smokes.) When the administration censored images of the flag-draped coffins of the young men and women being killed in Iraq - purportedly to respect \"the privacy of the families\" and not to minimize and cover up the true nature and consequences of the war - the family matriarch expressed her support for what was ultimately her son's decision by saying on Good Morning America on March 18, 2003, \"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? I mean it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?\" Mrs. Bush is not getting any younger. When she eventually ceases to walk among us we will undoubtedly see photographs of her flag-draped coffin. Whatever obituaries that run will admiringly mention those wizened, dynastic loins of hers and praise her staunch refusal to color her hair or glamorize her image. But will they remember this particular statement of hers, this \"Let them eat cake\" for the twenty-first century? Unlikely, since it received far too little play and definitely insufficient outrage when she said it. So let us promise herewith to never forget her callous disregard for other parents' children while her own son was sending them to make the ultimate sacrifice, while asking of the rest of us little more than to promise to go shopping. Commit the quote to memory and say it whenever her name comes up. Remind others how she lacked even the bare minimum of human integrity, the most basic requirement of decency that says if you support a war, you should be willing, if not to join those nineteen-year-olds yourself, then at least, at the very least , to acknowledge that said war was actually going on. Stupid fucking cow.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Rakoff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-rakoff/for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automatically-said-that-i-would-opt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/david-rakoff-3308_beautiful-mind_for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automat_737556.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/david-rakoff-3308_beautiful-mind_for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automat_737556.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/david-rakoff-3308_beautiful-mind_for-most-of-my-life-i-would-have-automat_737556.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status, and…” — David Rakoff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Payam Akhavan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/payam-akhavan/helping-survivors-of-residential-schools-in-canada-is-not-the-same-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/payam-akhavan-33674_apathy_helping-survivors-of-residential-schools_1097477.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/payam-akhavan-33674_apathy_helping-survivors-of-residential-schools_1097477.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/payam-akhavan-33674_apathy_helping-survivors-of-residential-schools_1097477.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to…” — Payam Akhavan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The good performed by some of United Nations institutions, such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been outweighed by the amount of bad the UN has either abetted or allowed. It has enabled genocide in Rwanda, done little or nothing to stop genocide in the Congo and Sudan, given a respectable forum to tyrannies, convened conferences (the Durban Conferences on racism) that simply became forums for anti-Semitism, and been preoccupied with vilifying one of its relatively few humane states, Israel. Its moral failings were further exemplified by its placing Qaddafi’s Libya on its Human Rights Commission, Iran on its Commission on the Status of Women, and North Korea on the Nuclear Disarmament Commission. It is not that the people who run the United Nations are bad people; it is that the United Nations is run by a majority of the world’s governments, and they are run by bad people. Without America in the Security Council, the bad would nearly always prevail.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dennis Prager" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-prager/the-good-performed-by-some-of-united-nations-institutions-such-as-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/dennis-prager-631_bad-people_the-good-performed-by-some-of-united-nat_1665854.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/dennis-prager-631_bad-people_the-good-performed-by-some-of-united-nat_1665854.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/dennis-prager-631_bad-people_the-good-performed-by-some-of-united-nat_1665854.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The good performed by some of United Nations institutions, such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF…” — Dennis Prager", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There were actual land sites all over the planet that should be very badly contaminated by lipofuscin, because their soil has been seeded with the stuff for generations. I speak, of course, of graveyards. Think about it: hundreds of bodies put into the ground—sometimes en masse, as happened throughout Europe during the horrors of the Plague, and more recently following acts of genocide in Rwanda and elsewhere. These soils should be chockablock with aggregates from their inhabitants’ decaying bodies. Yet, to my knowledge, there was no accumulation of lipofuscin in cemeteries—and if there were, we certainly ought to be aware of it, because lipofuscin is fluorescent. Months later, when I was discussing the issue with fellow Cambridge scientist John Archer, he would put the disconnect succinctly: “Why don’t graveyards glow in the dark?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/there-were-actual-land-sites-all-over-the-planet-that-should-be-very/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/anonymous-1_glow-in-the-dark_there-were-actual-land-sites-all-over-th_1976302.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/anonymous-1_glow-in-the-dark_there-were-actual-land-sites-all-over-th_1976302.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/anonymous-1_glow-in-the-dark_there-were-actual-land-sites-all-over-th_1976302.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There were actual land sites all over the planet that should be very badly contaminated by lipofuscin…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew who she was . No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships—gone. She went on living, but with a tabula rasa as her diary and calendar and notebook. I think of this every time I hear of the callow ambition to 'make a new start' or to be 'born again': Do those who talk this way truly wish for the slate to be wiped? Genocide means not just mass killing, to the level of extermination, but mass obliteration to the verge of extinction. You wish to have one more reflection on what it is to have been made the object of a 'clean' sweep? Try Vladimir Nabokov's microcosmic miniature story 'Signs and Symbols,' which is about angst and misery in general but also succeeds in placing it in what might be termed a starkly individual perspective. The album of the distraught family contains a faded study of Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-once-spoke-to-someone-who-had-survived-the-genocide-in-rwanda-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/christopher-hitchens-117_angst_i-once-spoke-to-someone-who-had-survived_2408199.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/christopher-hitchens-117_angst_i-once-spoke-to-someone-who-had-survived_2408199.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/christopher-hitchens-117_angst_i-once-spoke-to-someone-who-had-survived_2408199.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now…” — Christopher Hitchens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. 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