Esther Mujawayo Quotes
born 1958 Rwanda
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958), is a Rwandan sociologist and psychotherapist. She survived the Tutsi genocide, but lost many members of her family.
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It is possible to become the man or the woman you used to be again, to become alive again.
Even though they have lost everything, they still keep their role as a mother, as the caretaker of the household.
The women still have a strong sense of purpose, which makes it easier for them to start their lives here.
Too often, it is preceded by repeated warning signs that fail to receive a strong and early international response.
You can take your unfortunate history and use it to grow, to be even better.
Alone, you are just by yourself, but together you can be strong again.
The more we keep silent, the more history repeats itself.
If it could have happened, it can happen again.
From the worst, most terrible experience of the genocide against Tutsi in 1994, we managed to make something good, something beautiful.
Every morning, I put one foot in front of the other and I don't know if I am moving forward or backward.
I want to be nice and forgive, but I can’t because you failed us once, and now you are failing the survivors.
I truly have hope because there are a lot of young people here. I challenge you all to make a difference, it’s in your hands.
Most of the survivors we have today were broken in their bodies and their souls.
We had been feeling the tension increase for a long time.
When you are constantly thinking you will be deported tomorrow, you cannot integrate, you cannot learn the language, you cannot start to live again.
You have to learn again to trust, to reconcile yourself, your life, come to the point where you say this life is worth it and I have the right to live again.
So we learned to deal with it very early in a way that doesn't stop you living.
What is forgiveness? Forgive who? Who has asked me for forgiveness?
Because I am not dead, I must live. Upon waking up, I find that I am as distraught as I was the night before.
What is the point of coming here if I’m going to be politically correct – I’m not a politician – the truth needs to be heard.