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  1. Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels

    Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!
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  2. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    {On the beginning of the mid-1990s' genocidal war in Rwanda:}Within six weeks, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, representing about three-quarters of the Tutsi then remaining in Rwanda, or 11% of Rwanda's total population, had been killed.
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  3. Jared Diamond _ Guns, Germs, and Steel: The

    The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.
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  4. Rick Warren _ The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding

    In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.
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  5. Philip Gourevitch _ We Wish to Inform You That

    The spectre of an absolute menace that requires absolute eradication binds leader and people in a hermetic utopian embrace, and the individual - always an annoyance to totality - ceases to exist.
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  6. Philip Gourevitch _ We Wish to Inform You That

    The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
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  7. Elie Wiesel _ Night

    My faceless neighbor spoke up:"Don't be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve."I exploded:"What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:"I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.
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