Esther Mujawayo Quotes

If it could have happened, it can happen again.

I do not know if my reaction comes from pride or if it's a survival instinct. I know only this; that to be fully alive rather than to survive, is a way of punishing them. It's the only revenge possible to me.

You can take your unfortunate history and use it to grow, to be even better.

Alone, you are just by yourself, but together you can be strong again.

We were condemned to live.

Most of the survivors we have today were broken in their bodies and their souls.

Because I am not dead, I must live. Upon waking up, I find that I am as distraught as I was the night before.

From her birth on a Rwandan hill to her current life in Germany. She tries to recount the appalling wound of the genocide in order to overcome the terrible guilty feeling about: "Why did I survive?

So we learned to deal with it very early in a way that doesn't stop you living.

Too often, it is preceded by repeated warning signs that fail to receive a strong and early international response.

Why do I need to reconcile with the killer of my husband? I'm just glad to have a government that creates rule of law so we can live together peacefully.

It is possible to become the man or the woman you used to be again, to become alive again.

Many of us have lost close friends. And we have asked ourselves: Why have we not seen the obvious? Why have we as church institutions not been able to push the international community to stop the killings?

From the worst, most terrible experience of the genocide against Tutsi in 1994, we managed to make something good, something beautiful.

What is the point of coming here if I’m going to be politically correct – I’m not a politician – the truth needs to be heard.