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“We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.”

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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500…

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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on…

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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

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Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could…

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I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out… It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador." I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what…

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I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.

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When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

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A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment,…

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As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and…

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

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“I do not know where Viktor and Rudolf were taken. I cannot find the records. I never Elisabeth or Iggie. It is possible that they were taken to the Hotel Metropole, which has been sequestered as the headquarters of the Gestapo. There are many other lock-ups for this flood of Jews. They are beaten, of course; but they are also…

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I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have…

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Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

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“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem…

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War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have…

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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of…

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“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the…

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