Country Quote by John Howard Griffin

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

— Jack Schwartz

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.

— Raphael Lemkin

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Quibbling over the definition of genocide does nothing but help obscure the long history of vicious racism and undeniable suffering of Indigenous people in…

— Neil Macdonald

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting…

— Philip Gourevitch

“Genocide" is an invidious word that officials apply readily to cases of victimization in enemy states, but rarely if ever to similar or worse…

— Noam Chomsky

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

— Andrea Dworkin

The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure,…

— James Orbinski

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land,…

— Michael Ignatieff

“It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda's genocide described as a product of "ancient tribal hatreds." I think this is an easy way…

— Paul Rusesabagina

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the…

— Michael Moore

Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned,…

— Wade Davis