Alija Izetbegovic Quotes

The Armenians [have] been decieved and ... their rights have not been recognized.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

Disenfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

The brutality against the Baloch people represents the worst form of State oppression.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

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.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

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.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.