“I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience.… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share
I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“There is something living deep within us all that welcomes, even relishes, the role of victimhood for ourselves. There is no cause in the… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“The other thing you have to understand was that the message crept into our national consciousness very slowly. It did not happen all at… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
