- Armenian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genocide Quotes
Naming the crime was always the first act of resistance.
These are quotes of witness and warning rather than despair. One is a direct call to action: lives can still be saved, and genocide can still be stopped, a belief echoed by the Armenia and Armenian Genocide history this page also connects to.
- Last Updated on Aug 02, 2026
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the October 1933 proceedings of the League of Nations in Madrid, Lemkin mounted a valiant effort to persuade the gathered ambassadors to define and agree to punish the crime of what we now call genocide. He failed.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.
- Counterparts
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020