Esther Mujawayo Quotes

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

We were condemned to live.

It was surrealistic. I was really thinking, 'Are we dreaming?' They deny everything, they deny everything.

I want to be nice and forgive, but I can’t because you failed us once, and now you are failing the survivors.

If it could have happened, it can happen again.

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

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

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?

When you are constantly thinking you will be deported tomorrow, you cannot integrate, you cannot learn the language, you cannot start to live again.

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?

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

You have to learn again to trust, to reconcile yourself, your life, come to the point where you say this life is worth it and I have the right to live again.

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

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

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