Able Quote by Stephen Kinzer

Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to…

— Paul Kagame

I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me…

— Paul Kagame

“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure…

— Stephen Kinzer

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

— Paul Kagame

Rwanda has emerged from the devastation of genocide and become more secure and prosperous than anyone had a right to expect.

— Stephen Kinzer

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people…

— Tony Greig

I've told Rwandans it's not just what you think of for yourselves, but what others think of us.

— Paul Kagame

“The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.”

— John Rucyahana

“The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like…

— Roméo Dallaire

If there is any hope that we in America might one day overcome our own history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, and oppression and create…

— Michelle Alexander

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

“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