“Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.”

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.”

“A genocide begins with the killing of one man – not for what he has done, but because of who he is.”

“”…there’s a sickness
worse than the risk of death and that’s
forgetting what we should never forget.””

“All day I was digging Armenian bones out of the Syrian desert with a TV crew that kept ducking the Mukhabarat who trailed us in jeeps and at night joined us”

“My name is Sherman Alexie and I was born from loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss and loss. And loss.”