Quotes with genocide

  • Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Gloria Steinem If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Alcee Hastings Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Adam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Adam Schiff The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bill Bailey You're absolutely right, Hitler was a vegetarian. It's very unseemly to think so, but there he was. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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