"for the dead and the living, we must bear witness."
— Elie Wiesel

"The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer."
— Bertolt Brecht (Selected Poems)

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."
— Noam Chomsky

"A hug a day, keeps the genocide away"
— C.J. Kennedy

"There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege."
— Chris Hedges (War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning)

"If I look at the mass I will never act."
— Mother Teresa

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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— Aung San Suu Kyi (Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition)

"Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building."
— Philip Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda)