Sentences with phrase «about genocide»

How do I keep myself from talking about genocide when someone just wants me to pray for their sick dog?

For example, in a 1974 interview, she turned a question about genocide into a discussion about birth control and abortion.

Others worry about genocide, and don't want to look the other way when mass killings of civilians take place.

The memorial day, which seeks to maintain awareness about genocides in order to prevent more occurring, will also remember other genocides including those in Bosnia and Kosovo, Rwanda and Cambodia.

AWFJ Award for Humanitarian Activism Sandra Bullock (for tsunami relief) Elaine Hendrix (for Animal Rescue Corps and In Defense of Animals) Angelina Jokie (for UN work and making «In the Land of Blood and Honey» to raise awareness about genocide) Elizabeth Taylor (for her work with AIDS) Olivia Wilde (for relief work in Haiti)

Cartoonist Jen Sorensen once drew a strip titled «How to get Americans to care about genocide,» which...

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. tells a story about Philip Gourevich, who has written about genocide in Rwanda.

In the presentation, I mentioned that upon reading the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho for myself, I realized it was a story about genocide, with God commanding Joshua to kill every man, woman, and child in the city for the sole purpose of acquiring land.

I am specifically talking about genocide committed by the Allied Forces, preceding, during, and after both WW1 and WW2.

Like the name implies, Shoot Many Robots is literally about the genocide of mechanical beings.

Teaching about genocide supports character education and helps students reconsider their own assumptions about in - group / out - group dynamics, scapegoating, revenge, and forgiveness.

In Like Water on Stone, my verse novel about genocide and survival, the reader gets to know one of the world's oldest places: Armenia.

After learning about genocide and mass atrocities, students need time to reflect and respond.

Well, he isn't shy about genocide or torturing souls for eternity in a lake of fire.

I know of Christians who care deeply about genocide and human trafficking and refugees and hunger... but who speak with disdain about the very reporters who so often bring these stories to light.

How about Genocide?

«Had we a year ago made a determination about genocide crimes against humanity, it would have resulted in what we are doing [now],» he said at a January press conference announcing Open Doors's 2016 World Watch List.

Just a shame about the genocide, which he justified on the grounds the indigenous / peasants were demon possessed.

«Indigenous People's Day reimagines Columbus Day and changes a celebration of colonialism into an opportunity to reveal historical truths about the genocide and oppression of indigenous people in the Americas, to organize against current injustices and to celebrate indigenous resistance.»

It is different from many other documentaries about the issue in that it establishes the fact that there is nothing positive about genocide (meaning stories of heroism and compassion), before addressing issues of reconciliation.

Dances With Wolves — Marked down for self - righteousness and what you might call «Mississippi Burning Syndrome», in that finally making a western about the genocide committed against American Indians, they still manage to have a white guy be the hero.

A fleet allegory about genocide, produced for children (yes, really), it also thrives in all the wonderful grossness of our bodies while featuring one of the most original and hilariously morbid girl characters in years.

On one hand, telling the world about the genocide of the Armenian people is extremely important.

BACKGROUND: In the coming days we will be learning more about genocide.

I remember hearing on the news and reading in the papers about the genocide in Rawanda, the racial strife between the Hutus and the Tutsis, but I really didn't understand what was going on and I forgot a very important thing.

Similarly, the combination of Edward Poitras's tiny wall pieces about genocide — little metal holding pens filled with crumbled pages from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — with Stephen Andrews's Facsimile, a series of fax - like portraits of people who have died of AIDS inscribed on beeswax, reveals both artists as quiet memorialists, acutely aware of the ellipses in remembering.

Those of us who are smart enough realize we got lied about the Tonking Gulf Incident, that Clinton lied about genocide in Kosovo, that Bush lied about WMD in Iraq, etc etc etc..

Survival Pictures was established to tell this story of perseverance and human endurance, and it has begun a campaign to teach the public about the genocides and mass atrocities of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Angelina Jolie for UN work and making In The Land of Blood and Honey to raise awareness about genocide.

My first attempt to write about the genocide, penned 20 years ago now, exists only as a rough draft in the underground archives of my alma mater.

It's a strange yet poignant juxtaposition: children dressed up as princesses and pirates as if for Halloween, parents donning colorful masks, rabbis reading an ancient story to the raucous cheers and boos of the listeners, wine flowing abundantly, sweets passed around... all in honor of a story about the near - destruction of an entire people group, a story about genocide.

When the kids choir sings about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho, I lean over to my husband and whisper something about genocide, drawing harsh stares from parents

An interesting lesson taught about genocide and cannibalism: it's not the commission of atrocity to be mourned, it's the loss for a taste for French fries that's really the tragedy.

When I decided that it was time to write a novel about the genocide — what my novel's narrator calls glibly, «The Slaughter You Know Next to Nothing About» — I found myself focused on children and food.

Cartoonist Jen Sorensen once drew a strip titled «How to get Americans to care about genocide,» which included «Darfur: The Movie, starring Russell Crowe as an aid worker.»

Whether the artist is making a statement about the corruption of religion, about genocide in Darfur, or simply about American pop culture, art has the ability to slap people in the face and wake them up, lull them into a sense of peace and tranquility, or inspire them to take up arms and march to war.

Last fall she released First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, about the genocide, on Netflix.

But here I must ask am I the only one who has noted this about the genocides?

I only recently realized that this little song is about genocide.

You know, it being about genocide and all.

Angelina Jolie for UN work and making In The Land of Milk and Blood to raise awareness about genocide.

And on the BBC, where she is a frequent guest, she has talked about genocide, provocative photos of women in the media, and another controversial figure in her country: Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot while on her way to school and eventually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

For instance, we can't talk about genocide and warlords in Africa unless zombie creatures are involved.