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If we accept the silence that is given to us, we will never move the world ahead.

— 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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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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