Rwanda Quotes
49 quotes by 39 authors
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab…
— Eric Alterman
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The beautiful faces of the children I’ve met in Rwanda and in other countries are with me every day and fuel my passion to raise…
— Christina Aguilera
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the…
— Jello Biafra
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Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
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One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just…
— Tony Greig
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The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt…
— Tony Greig
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We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on…
— William J. Clinton
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You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged…
— Park Geun-hye
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For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and…
— Andrew Mack
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Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.
— Paul Kagame
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Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.
— Naomi Benaron
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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 well as a…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.
— Rick Warren
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It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace…
— Paul Kagame
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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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 of status quo. They were…
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
— Kofi Annan
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