Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered-one does not usually lead to the other-but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.
Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity. . . After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.
When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the United States within the UN prevents implementation. At the same time, several African leaders are being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity and participation in genocide: a double standard of sorts, given the impunity accorded to the West and Israel.
It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.
I am ashamed of my nation.
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.
We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.
Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.
The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding.
I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.