Rwanda Quotes

49 Rwanda quotes by 38 unique authors

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. It’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
For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again… — Allyson Schwartz
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around… — Samantha Power
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended… — Naomi Benaron
When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to… — Hugh Dancy
I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they… — John Pomfret
The most incomprehensible situation I've ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don't really know how many people died; the estimate of half a million to… — James Nachtwey

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