If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if … - Paul Rusesabagina

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I didn't say [Steve Scalise] was fanatically pro-Israel. I said I wouldn't vote for because he supports state of Israel which has committed terrorism against American in the Lavon Affair.

Paul Rusesabagina

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

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Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

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A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.

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Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

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Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager. . . my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

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This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

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