Raphael Lemkin Genocide Quotes & Sayings

By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. — Raphael Lemkin

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war! — Raphael Lemkin

Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals. — Raphael Lemkin

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

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim. — Michael Ignatieff