Raphael Lemkin Quotes

The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in its execution and up to this point profited greatly therefrom

Je jednoduché vyhladiť skupinu ľudí, konštatuje Raphael Lemkin, lebo nikto nebude veriť, že sa to deje, kým nebude neskoro. Svet opakuje slová "nikdy viac". Lemkin však pozná históriu genocídy a vie, že logika hovorí "nabudúce". Už sa to stalo, preto sa to môže zopakovať.

The United States is acquainted with the crime, having facilitated genocides in other countries such as Indonesia and Guatemala, for which they never faced retribution; indeed Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term ‘genocide’, considered the colonial replacement of Indigenous peoples by European colonists in the Americas to be a historical example of the crime.