Rwanda Quotes
49 quotes by 38 authors
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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
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I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
— Paul Farmer
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I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
— Miep Gies
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Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of…
— Chinua Achebe
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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
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
— Jim Fowler
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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
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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
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Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
— Philip Gourevitch
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Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for…
— Chelsea Handler
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Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
— Immaculee Ilibagiza
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.
— Stephen Kinzer
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Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.
— Joanna Lumley
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My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.
— Giles Foden
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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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