{"quotes":[{"text":"I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["genocide","human-rights","humanity","isis","peace","terrorism","widad-akrawi","yazidis"],"id":1439,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilise the region. And I thought - destabilisation of fascist regimes is a good thing. Why should the left care about the stability of undemocratic regimes? Wasn't it a good thing to destabilise the regime of General Franco? It was a time when the left was mostly taking the conservative, status quo position - leave the Balkans alone, leave Milosevic alone, do nothing. And that kind of conservatism can easily mutate into actual support for the aggressors. Weimar-style conservatism can easily mutate into National Socialism. So you had people like Noam Chomsky's co-author Ed Herman go from saying 'Do nothing in the Balkans', to actually supporting Milosevic, the most reactionary force in the region. That's when I began to first find myself on the same side as the neocons. I was signing petitions in favour of action in Bosnia, and I would look down the list of names and I kept finding, there's Richard Perle. There's Paul Wolfowitz. That seemed interesting to me. These people were saying that we had to act. Before, I had avoided them like the plague, especially because of what they said about General Sharon and about Nicaragua. But nobody could say they were interested in oil in the Balkans, or in strategic needs, and the people who tried to say that - like Chomsky - looked ridiculous. So now I was interested.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["anti-war","bosnia-and-herzegovina","bosnian-war","ethnic-cleansing","genocide","humanitarian-intervention","interventionism","isolationism","leftism","neocons","neoconservatism","noninterventionism","pacifism","war"],"id":1585,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["death","genocide","germany","history","hitler","holocaust","jews"],"id":2109,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"},{"text":"The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["big-government","bill-of-rights","central-planning","civil-rights","democide","diversity","ethnic-minorities","eugenics","genocide","individual-liberty","individualism","individuality","libertarian","libertarianism","planned-societies","totalitarianism"],"id":4395,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["activism","al-qaeda","antisemitism","dictatorship","freedom-flotilla-ii","gaza","gaza-war","genocide","hamas","hezbollah","human-rights","israel","israeli-palestinian-conflict","middle-east","palestine","politics","protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion","symbolism"],"id":6195,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for 80 percent of the victims of the genocide.That means about eight hundred thousand people were murdered during those six weeks, making the daily killing rate at least five times that of the Nazi death camps. The simple peasants of Rwanda, with their machetes, clubs, and sticks with nails, had killed at a faster rate than the Nazi death machine with its gas chambers, mass ovens, and firing squads. In my opinion, the killing frenzy of the Rwandan genocide shared a vital common thread with the technological efficiency of the Nazi genocide--satanic hate in abundance was at the core of both.","author":"John Rucyahana","tags":["death","genocide","hatred","nazi","rwanda"],"id":14243,"author_id":"John+Rucyahana"},{"text":"What I learned in Rwanda was that God is not absent when great evil is unleashed. Whether that evil is man-made or helped along by darker forces, God is right there, saving those who respond to His urgings and trying to heal the rest.","author":"James Riordan","tags":["epiphanic-moment","epiphany","evil","genocide","god","rwanda"],"id":19596,"author_id":"James+Riordan"},{"text":",Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares—most ordinary—so ordinary that you can’t believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.","author":"John A. Williams","tags":["genocide","racism","white-supremecy"],"id":21217,"author_id":"John+A.+Williams"},{"text":"All bombing is terrorism.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bloodshed","bombing","bombs","fear","genocide","murder","peace","peace-making","peaceful","peacemakers","soldiers","terror","terrorism","war","world-peace"],"id":23721,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["bigotry","buddha","buddha-nature","buddhism","capitalism","communism","country","genocide","kennedy","mankind","peace","politics","racism","socialism","violence","war"],"id":28767,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}