"What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from……" — Philip Gourevitch
"What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime."
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9 Quotes by Philip Gourevitch
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The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine…
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The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the…
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either…
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Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence…
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Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its…
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Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.
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The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry.…
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