Esther Mujawayo Quotes

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?

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

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

I truly have hope because there are a lot of young people here. I challenge you all to make a difference, it’s in your hands.

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.

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

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

We were condemned to live.

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.

People mistake us talking about this to be out of hatred but that's not the case. It is because we want people to know how it happened. So if people know how this comes about, then it would be easy to stop such actions.

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?

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

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

We had been feeling the tension increase for a long time.

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