Quote by Elif Shafak

“And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.”

— Philip Marsden

“History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now”

— Colin McEvedy

“Being an Armenian is a merciless task and a heroic enterprise. It is a commandment, a mission, and a destiny that history has imposed…

— Keri Topouzian

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

— William Saroyan

“At least forty million Americans can't read and write, according to this morning's New York Times. That is six times as many illiterates as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think,…

— Virginia Woolf

It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore,…

— William Saroyan

“Both were Armenian, the dove and the cross.”

— Sero Khanzadyan

When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences…

— Pope Francis

“We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud…

— Orhan Pamuk

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the…

— Theodore Roosevelt