Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

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.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

[The Khmer Rouge are] the worst violators of human rights in the world.

Torture is not a thing we can tolerate.

It would be an advantage to justice if we were to effectively interfere for the Armenians in Turkey, and for the Jews in Russia … and in the Congo Free State.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.