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Our youth are capable. Normally, when a person is discouraged from his tender age, they grow up thinking that they truly can’t. It’s the same technique the colonialisers used in Africa. They told us that we are fools, we can’t do anything and sadly we accepted it.

— Yolande Mukagasana

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Nothing is more destructive than never being satisfied with who you are and what you have.

There will be no humanity without forgiveness, there will be no forgiveness without justice, and there will be no justice without humanity.

When writing, let your words come from the heart.

As keepers of memory, we cannot accept the distortion of Rwanda’s history which include the genocide.

The genocide perpetrated against Tutsi is the history of Rwandans, it is the history of humanity.

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