Cases Quote by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“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 Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to…

— Elie Wiesel

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

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell.…

— James Cameron

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

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

I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

— Raphael Lemkin

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

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic…

— David Suzuki

“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are…

— Chris Bohjalian

“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