"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family,
and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all
the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"If
nations are allowed to commit genocide with impunity, to
hide their guilt in a camouflage of lies and denials, there
is a real danger that other brutal regimes will be encouraged
to attempt genocides. Unless we speak today of the Armenian
genocide and unless the Government recognizes this historical
fact, we shall leave this century of unprecedented genocides
with this blot on our consciences."
-Caroline,
Baroness Cox, House of Lords, April 1999
“All
that is needed for the triumph of evil is that good men
do nothing.”
-Edmund
Burke
“I
love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice
for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom,
must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery,
of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most
dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the
Turkish Inquisition.”
-Leyla
Zana [Writings from Prison (Watertown, Mass: Blue Crane Books,
1999) p22]
"The
strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to
paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these
remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or
corporate power."
-Howard
Zinn in The Progressive magazine, January 2000, p20
"The
nearest successful example [of collective denial] in the
modern era is the 80 years of official denial by successive
Turkish governments of the 1915-17 genocide against the
Armenians in which 1.5 million people lost their lives.
This denial has been sustained by deliberate propaganda,
lying and cover-ups, forging documents, suppression of archives,
and bribing scholars."
-Stanley
Cohen, Professor of Criminology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
[Law and Social Inquiry vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 7, 50]
“There
is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious,
makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you
can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your
bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers,
upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.
And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to
the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine
will be prevented from working at all!”
-Mario
Savio, student leader of the 1960’s free speech movement
at the University of California Berkeley (December 3, 1964)
"The
Turkish denial [of the Armenian Genocide] is probably the
foremost example of historical perversion. With a mix of
academic sophistication and diplomatic thuggery -- of which
we at Macquarie University have been targets -- the Turks
have put both memory and history into reverse gear."
-Prof.
Colin Tatz, Director, Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies
[Center for Genocide Studies Newsletter, (December 1995-January
1996)]
“Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere . . . Whatever
affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
