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War Quotes by Ishmael Beah
- This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
- I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last…
- In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came…
- Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the…
- Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each…
- I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives…
- For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living…
- What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they…
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- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
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- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood