Colonization Quote by Raphael Lemkin

Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be…

— Malcolm Fraser

Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Raphael Lemkin

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

— Jack Schwartz

“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

“the convention, any one of five acts is considered genocide if “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are…

— Aaron Huey

Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of…

— Terry Brooks

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary…

— Philip Gourevitch

The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which…

— Arundhati Roy