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  1. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like myself, like my family, with every right and expectation of any human who is a member of our tortured race. I was determined to persevere."
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  2. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    Still, I did not regret for a moment leaving the bright lights of Manhattan behind in favour of night skies so dark the stars seemed close enough to be street lights. In the recycled cabin air of the long flight back, I physically longed for Rwanda, its rich red earth, the smell of its wood fires and its vibrant humanity.
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  3. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    Still, at its heart the Rwandan story is the story of the failure of humanity to heed a call for help from an endangered people.The international community, of which the UN is only a symbol, failed to move beyond self-interest for the sake of Rwanda. While most nations agreed that something should be done they all had an excuses why they should not be the ones to do it. As a result, the UN was denied the political will and material mean to prevent the tragedy.
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  4. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision.
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  5. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    I have often been criticized for being an 'emotional' leader, for not being macho enough, but even during this early stage in my career, I believed that the magic of command lies in openness, in being both sympathetic to the troops and at the same time being apart, in always projecting supreme confidence in my own ability and in theirs to accomplish whatever task is set for us.
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  6. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    The global village is deteriorating at a rapid pace, and in the children of the world the result is rage. It is the rage I saw in the eyes of the teenage Interahamwe militiamen in Rwanda, it is the rage I sensed in the hearts of the children of Sierra Leone, it is the rage I felt in crowds of ordinary civilians in Rwanda, and it is the rage that resulted in September 11. Human beings who have no rights, no security, no future, no hope and no means to survive are a desperate group who will do desperate things to take what they believe they need and deserve.
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  7. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
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  8. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    Though many desperately and relentlessly cling to old, divisive ideas in the face of a future that looks complex and uncertain, no one can legitimately portray themselves as members or practitioners of the one true faith, the superior race, the best culture. No one can say, with the image of the blue and green Earth floating in their heads, that others don't count as much as "we" do, that others don't hold the same status as we do, are not as significant as us, are ultimately just not as human as us.
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  9. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace.
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  10. Roméo Dallaire _ Shake Hands with the Devil:

    If I decide to make a career in the army, he said, I would never be rich, but I would live one of the most satisfying lives there was to be had. Thenhe warned me that satisfaction would come at a great cost to me and any family I might have. I should never expected to be thanked; a soldier, if he was going to be content, had to understand that no civilian, no government,sometimes not even the army itself, would recognize the true nature of the scarifies he made.
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  11. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.
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  12. Roméo Dallaire _ They Fight Like Soldiers, They

    The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.
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