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...
hear learned words
The most abusive words that I hear are 'never again,' ... Have we learned from history? I do not know.
eating people
If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners,
five minutes people
For five minutes I was speechless, ... Then I told them that I didn't know how to use this gun, but even if I did I wouldn't kill these people
hotel manager paul remain
I am nothing special. Paul was a hotel manager. He will remain a hotel manager to the end.
ignored ignoring needed rwanda
The world ignored Rwanda when we really needed it. Unfortunately, even now the world is still ignoring us.
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,
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.
blessed men thinking
I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.
powerful people way
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.
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.
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.