Loung Ung Quotes

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• Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it.
• From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a…
• As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I’ve had the chance to do something that’s worth me being alive...…
• To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that…
• When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me,…
• In America there's a saying that children should be seen and not heard, .. In Cambodia, children should not be seen nor heard because you…
• I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
• I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.
• In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

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