Rwanda Quotes

49 quotes by 38 authors

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and… — Patrick J. Adams
I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. — Paul Farmer
I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. — Miep Gies
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people â€“ mothers, children, babies, civilians â€“ lost their lives as a result of… — Chinua Achebe
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the… — Sufjan Stevens
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. — Jim Fowler
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting… — Thabo Mbeki
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I… — Romeo Dallaire
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. — Philip Gourevitch
Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. Itâ€™s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for… — Chelsea Handler
Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda. — Jacqueline Novogratz
I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time. — Immaculee Ilibagiza
Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed… — Wole Soyinka
Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always… — Wole Soyinka
The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to… — Romeo Dallaire
Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree.… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect. — Stephen Kinzer
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. — Joanna Lumley
My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border. — Giles Foden
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge… — John Pomfret

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