Quotes of: Rwanda Keyword

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

(On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:) Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

...and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

...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 week...

The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

I knew that to really minister to Rwanda's needs meant working toward reconciliation in the prisons, in the churches, and in the cities and villages throughout the country. It meant feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, caring for the young, b...

The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

Jack: [walking towards the bus carrying all the whites who are leaving Rwanda while the blacks are left behind] Oh, God, I'm so ashamed!

Hotel Rwanda

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

John Pomfret

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has...

Wole Soyinka

That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.

The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write...

The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones

General Bizimungu: I commanded no massacres!

Hotel Rwanda

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Kofi Annan

George Rutaganda: Cut the tall trees. Cut the tall trees now!

Hotel Rwanda

Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Joanna Lumley

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

[first lines] George Rutaganda: [voiceover] When people ask me, good listeners, why do I hate all the Tutsi, I say, "Read our history." The Tutsi were collaborators for the Belgian colonists, they stole our Hutu land, they whipped us. Now they have c...

Hotel Rwanda

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

Jacqueline Novogratz