Rwanda Quotes

I was six years old when the conflict started in Rwanda.

— Clemantine Wamariya

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

— Kofi Annan

I was born in Nyarugenge, a district in Kigali, Rwanda.

— Ncuti Gatwa

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

— Paul Farmer

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

— Paul Kagame

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

— Naomi Benaron

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

— Philip Gourevitch

“We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.”

— John Rucyahana

I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.'

— Lee Isaac Chung

“I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision.”

— Roméo Dallaire

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And…

— Noam Chomsky

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

— Paul Kagame

“The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.”

— John Rucyahana

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

I think the only value of 'Hotel Rwanda' is the fact that it keeps the Rwandan genocide alive, but as far as…

— Romeo Dallaire

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

— Jim Fowler

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Peace cannot come without the engagement of those who have been before. Gen. Dostum will make peace possible. He was engaged in…

— Ashraf Ghani

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. Its the first time an entire Third World country will have to…

— Chelsea Handler

“I believe, in the years to come, America will look to Rwanda as a very bright light of hope: a country that…

— Tracey Lawrence

When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here…

— Paul Kagame

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I…

— Tony Greig

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique…

— Paul Kagame

The United States is the lone superpower of the world. We have a stake in Rwanda's success because we have a stake…

— Swanee Hunt

In Rwanda, we have a society that has experienced a very serious rupture and you can't expect all of a sudden that…

— Paul Kagame

I went to Rwanda with my wife who had been going for the past three summers. She is an art therapist who…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got…

— Lee Kuan Yew

The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that…

— Paul Kagame

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be,…

— Wole Soyinka

“{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to…

— John Rucyahana

“...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for…

— John Rucyahana

“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But did it have to be that those who were most damaged by the genocide remained the most neglected in the aftermath?…

— Philip Gourevitch

“Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ ​and​ ​over​ ​in​ ​the​ ​Bible:​ ​“Remember the​ ​Sabbath​ ​day​ ​by​ ​keeping​ ​it​ ​holy”​…

— Eric Irivuzumugabe

“I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the…

— John Rucyahana

It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken…

— Paul Kagame

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

— Mary Robinson