This is a timeline of genocides and other important events of the 20th century. By learning about these atrocities, our hope is that future generations will live in a society free of these crimes against humanity.
“Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.” Marina Tavares Dias
"World War 1 was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth." Ernest Hemingway
"What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten." Atom Egoyan
"Nothing less depends upon this decision, nothing less than the liberation and salvation of the world." Woodrow Wilson
"But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand." John Maynard Keynes
"Because what was done to the Ukrainian people was a mortal offence against the values we hold dearest; freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law." Stephen Harper
“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” Yehuda Bauer
"Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world." Adolf Hitler
"I did not imagine that such cruel people existed in the modern world."
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." Albert Einstein
"The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat." Richard M. Nixon
"Survivors, most of them in the countryside, are rarely given a voice, all too often taking their memories with them to their graves." Frank Dikötter
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam." Marshall Mcluhan
"We believe in one race only - the human race to which we belong. The history of the human race is a long history of struggle against all restrictions, physical, mental and spiritual." Mangaliso Sobukwe
“President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.” Kathryn Stockett
"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." Inscription on a plaque left behind on the moon
"When the Hindus have been eliminated by death and fight, their property will be used as a golden carrot to win over the under privileged Muslim middle-class." The Government’s policy for East Bengal, 1971
"I want them never to forget the faces of their relatives and friends who were killed during that time. The dead are crying out for justice." Dith Pran
"That night, I couldn't sleep, and I lay in bed, just dozing. suddenly I was woken by a bright flash in the sky and the room was brilliantly lit as if by lightning." Yao Guangqing
"For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy." Mikhail Gorbachev
"After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union." David Cameron
"Everywhere people were shooting. The fighters were moving through the town, systematically killing all the Muslims they could get their hands on." Jose Maria Mendiluce
"I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him." Roméo Dallaire
"I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty." OJ Simpson
“Eric dreamed big but settled for reality.” Dave Cullen
"For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain." Deepak Chopra
"Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Michael Leeden
"We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur." Nicholas D. Kristof
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