"A genocide in Africa has not received the……" — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."
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27 Quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of…
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Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands…
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The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
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Water will be more important than oil this century
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It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is…
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or…
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The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with…
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We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
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But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened…
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There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in…
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind…
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
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— Art Blakey
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