Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabaginais a Rwandan humanitarian who, while working as a hotel manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the interahamwe militia during the Rwandan Genocide. None of those refugees were hurt or killed during the attacks...
coming far negotiate
I said, 'I'm not coming with you, because so far I'm the only person who can negotiate with the killers,
decided fight gun opened ruins sat since trip
We sat down in the ruins and we cried. The trip opened my eyes, it was very influential, ... Since then I've decided never to fight with a gun but with my mouth.
ashamed help point start
YOU have to make them feel ashamed to the point that they start to help us!
alone closing eyes genocide leaving million people saw thugs took
We saw the whole world closing their eyes and ears, leaving us alone to thugs and gangsters. The genocide took away a million people in a 100 days.
africa break needs telling vote west
Africa needs you, ... to break out a dialogue. I'm telling you this because you in the West are lucky, you vote for your own leaders.
children country dead six
The whole country was smelling of dead bodies, flies. I went to see family. My mother-in-law was dead, her six children killed,
eating people
If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners,
common-decency stubborn weapons
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.
kindness men sick
Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.
powerful people way
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.
jobs independent self
Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.
jobs block sea
Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.
play want fields
If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play -- if we want to change the world -- we must first show up on the field to score.
breathing long complicated
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.