Genocide Survivors Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to love you if you're only going to die. — Kristin Cashore

Nobody talked about my defense or that I used to steal bases, too. — Tony Gwynn

Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that's the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven't been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys.
Or, not given. Given back.
That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain.
I'm tired of being polite about something that matters so much. — Joss Whedon

No small part in the new awareness of the horrors of genocide was a willingness of Holocaust survivors to tell their stories. Chalk and Jonassohn note that these memoirs are historically unusual.146 Survivors of earlier genocides had treated them as humiliating defeats and felt that talking about them would only rub in history's harsh verdict. With the new humanitarian sensibilities, genocides became crimes against humanity, and survivors were witnesses for the prosecution. — Steven Pinker

I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen. — Dascha Polanco

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd. — Meat Loaf

Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation. Same with the heroic and the righteous. Usually it's only the survivors who speak-and often they don't want to talk much about it either. p. 75 — Chris Bohjalian

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be. — Red Auerbach

I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union. — Joshua Oppenheimer

This should not be just another art form for historians to see and appreciate, but an embodiment of powerful, evergreen human philosophy mingled with mythology and science, replicating divine and spiritual precipitation, which must compel human beings through generations to get mesmerised and assimilate it into their lives. — Bibhu Datta Rout

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! — James Patterson

Catchy acronym in the consulting world, "MECE," which stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. — Stanley McChrystal

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves. — Chris Bohjalian