Darfur Quotes - Page 1 | QuoteForever

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
Emmanuel Jal / Musician
Darfur
Cataclysmic
Copy Quote
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
Nicholas Kristof /
Conflict
Darfur
Month
Per
Victims
Copy Quote
Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
Ted Deutch /
Darfur
Genocide
Iran
Nuclear
Weapons
Individuals
Quest
Stand Up
Copy Quote
As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Atrocities
Darfur
Genocide
Idle
Jew
Sudan
Sit
Unfold
While
Copy Quote
As a government, it is our responsibility to maintain security for all citizens in Darfur.
Omar Al-Bashir /
Citizens
Darfur
Responsibility
Security
Maintain
Copy Quote
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Congo
Darfur
Somalia
Zimbabwe
Africa
Copy Quote
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Nicholas Kristof /
Darfur
Remarkable
Gratified
Household Name
Copy Quote
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
Nicholas Kristof /
Darfur
Matters
Trivial
Tune
Copy Quote
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
George Ayittey / Economist
Crisis
Darfur
Leader
Nato
Next
Africa
Copy Quote
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
Denise Mina / Crime Writer
Crime
Crime Fiction
Darfur
Fiction
Murder Mysteries
People
Reading
Quite
Interested
Mysteries
Copy Quote
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.
Nicholas Kristof /
Angry
Darfur
Heard
Inaction
Copy Quote
The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.
Kendrick Meek / Former U.s. Representative
Darfur
Died
Genocide
International
Justice
People
Years
Years Ago
Began
Coalition
Deadly
Estimated
Copy Quote
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.
Stephen Kinzer / Author
Darfur
Groups
Human Rights
Rights
Western
Wars
Working
Learned
Lesson
Prolong
Rebels
Value
Copy Quote
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Government
Darfur
International
Needed
Peacekeeping
Protection
Want
Avoid
Presence
Copy Quote
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Darfur
Decades
Features
Residents
African
Almost Everyone
Muslim
Virtually
Copy Quote
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Access
Agency
Darfur
People
Population
Vulnerable
Agencies
Total
Estimate
Third
Copy Quote
We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
Kendrick Meek / Former U.s. Representative
Darfur
Offensive
Peacekeeping
Protection
Begin
All-Out
Ensure
For The People
Prepare
Copy Quote
No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.
Rebecca Hamilton /
Darfur
Purpose
Spotlight
Copy Quote
I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
Jan Schakowsky / U.s. Representative
Darfur
Disaster
June
Ongoing
Organization
Proud
Response
Witness
Jewish
Coalition
Coordinated
Mobilize
Save
Copy Quote
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Compassionate
Darfur
Womb
Life Believe I Believe
Begins
Life Believe Living
Expand
Copy Quote
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
Linda Chavez / Author
Atrocities
Darfur
Destructive
Institutions
Irrelevant
Literature
Nations
Positively
Sudan
United Nations
Report
Institution
Largely
Proves
Copy Quote
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Nicholas Kristof /
Continuing
Darfur
Silence
Television News
Michael
Jackson
Reprehensible
Copy Quote
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Access
Adequate
Darfur
Including
Office
Personnel
Staff
Three
Although
Fortunately
Parts
Provincial
Copy Quote
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
Nicholas Kristof /
Cancer
Chad
Darfur
France
Genocide
President Bush
Republic
Shore
African
Bush
Central
Further
Immediate
Spreading
Copy Quote
In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.
Kendrick Meek / Former U.s. Representative
Congress
Darfur
Groups
Left
Lists
Names
Organization
Stopping
Before
Dozens
High
High Time
Join
List
Copy Quote
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
Tom Allen / Former United States Representative
Government
Citizens
Darfur
Despite
Genocide
Months
Past
Protect
Serious
Sudan
Attempt
Continue
Exist
Governments
In The Past
Primarily
Toward
Copy Quote
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.
John Prendergast / Human Rights Activist
Courage
Women
Congo
Darfur
Eastern
Fearless
Former
Helping
Human Rights
Return
Rights
Uganda
Everywhere
Now
Child
Activists
Advocate
Africa
Civilian
Human
Northern
Other
See
Soldiers
Copy Quote
It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan genocide erupted in 1994 and the Darfur genocide began in 2003, that the 'international community' had learned nothing since the Holocaust.
Terry Glavin /
Commonplace
Darfur
Genocide
Holocaust
International
International Community
Began
Bosnian
Copy Quote
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland / Politician
Calling
Ceasefire
Civilians
Concern
Conflict
Council
Crisis
Darfur
Massive
Party
Protect
Security Council
Encouraged
Expressing
Finally
Note
Parties
Statement
Copy Quote
People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur.
Mohamed Elbaradei / Diplomat
Afghanistan
Darfur
Outside World
Repressed
Somalia
Sudan
Wake Up
Morning World People
Shot
Governments
Muslims
Outside
Unfairly
Wake
Copy Quote
You can't get around certain stuff, whether it's in Darfur or on your block at home. What makes us political is your home turf, your family, your life space. You walk down the street, and automatically a human being is territorial, and political happens in that.
Sixto Rodriguez / Musician
Family
Home
Space
Block
Certain
Darfur
Stuff
Territorial
Turf
Life Family Home
Life Space Home
Around
Automatically
Down
Street
Walk
Human Being
Makes
Copy Quote
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.
Wole Soyinka / Writer
Assault
Community
Connected
Darfur
Happens
Human Family
Humanity
Individual
Self Worth
Tied
Family Community Me
General
Becomes
Belongs
Copy Quote
God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don't need to pray ten times a day - you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it's the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.
Tory Lanez / Rapper
Music
War
Brazil
Darfur
Earth
Healing
Syria
Ten
Pray
Back
Bring
Times
Ten Times
Put
Places
Souls
Copy Quote
After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Aspirin
Choices
Congo
Darfur
Milk
Blankets
Buy
Number
Masses
Copy Quote
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Bigger
Chapters
College
Darfur
Devoted
Genocide
Groups
High School
Movement
Stopping
Jewish
College Campuses
Evangelicals
Joined
Copy Quote

Top Authors

Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander
Tuesday, Aug 15, 1769
Saturday, May 05, 1821
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
Wednesday, May 25, 1803
Thursday, Apr 27, 1882
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
Friday, Nov 09, 1934
Friday, Dec 20, 1996
Zig Ziglar
Author
Saturday, Nov 06, 1926
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012
Muhammad Ali
Professional Boxer
Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
Friday, Jun 03, 2016
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Sunday, Sep 12, 1880
Sunday, Jan 29, 1956
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father Of The United States
Sunday, Jan 17, 1706
Saturday, Apr 17, 1790
Chanakya
Teacher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Barack Obama
44Th U.s. President
Friday, Aug 04, 1961
Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
Thursday, Nov 02, 1950

View All Authors

Darfur Quotes - Page 1

Picture Quotes Maker

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

Picture Quotes Maker

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page