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Esther Mujawayo
28 quotes
“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?”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Esther Mujawayo said her life. (Archive, 24 Apr 2015)
“Even though they have lost everything, they still keep their role as a mother, as the caretaker of the household.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“The women still have a strong sense of purpose, which makes it easier for them to start their lives here.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“Alone, you are just by yourself, but together you can be strong again.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“From the worst, most terrible experience of the genocide against Tutsi in 1994, we managed to make something good, something beautiful.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“When you are constantly thinking you will be deported tomorrow, you cannot integrate, you cannot learn the language, you cannot start to live again.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“You can take your unfortunate history and use it to grow, to be even better.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“It is possible to become the man or the woman you used to be again, to become alive again.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“What is forgiveness? Forgive who? Who has asked me for forgiveness?”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan genocide survivor helps refugees heal. DW. (July 2018)
“So we learned to deal with it very early in a way that doesn't stop you living.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A family looks back on Rwanda's genocide and considers when forgiveness is 'too much to ask'. TheWorld. (April 2019)
“It was surrealistic. I was really thinking, 'Are we dreaming?' They deny everything, they deny everything.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A family looks back on Rwanda's genocide and considers when forgiveness is 'too much to ask'. TheWorld. (April 2019)
“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.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A family looks back on Rwanda's genocide and considers when forgiveness is 'too much to ask'. TheWorld. (April 2019)
“Most of the survivors we have today were broken in their bodies and their souls.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From ‘dead on the inside’ to ‘truly alive’: Survivor of genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda recounts her story as UN marks 25th anniversary. UN. (April 2019)
“What is the point of coming here if I’m going to be politically correct – I’m not a politician – the truth needs to be heard.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Esther Mujawayo: The Voice Of A Survivor. The Concordian. (October 2007)
“I want to be nice and forgive, but I can’t because you failed us once, and now you are failing the survivors.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Esther Mujawayo: The Voice Of A Survivor. The Concordian. (October 2007)
“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.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Esther Mujawayo: The Voice Of A Survivor. The Concordian. (October 2007)
“Too often, it is preceded by repeated warning signs that fail to receive a strong and early international response.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Calling for urgent attention to prevent the ultimate crime. ohchr. (April 2014)
“We had been feeling the tension increase for a long time.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Calling for urgent attention to prevent the ultimate crime. ohchr. (April 2014)
“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?”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Empty hearts. United in Mission. (March 2014)
“The more we keep silent, the more history repeats itself.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chief Justice Ntezilyayo challenges international community on new mechanisms to fight Genocide ideology. RBA. (February 2020)
“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.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chief Justice Ntezilyayo challenges international community on new mechanisms to fight Genocide ideology. RBA. (February 2020)
“If it could have happened, it can happen again.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aegis launches exhibition with UNITAR in Geneva. Aegis. (September 2018)
“I do not know if my reaction comes from pride or if it's a survival instinct. I know only this; that to be fully alive rather than to survive, is a way of punishing them. It's the only revenge possible to me.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shadows of life, death and survival in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Scielo. (January 2015)
“Because I am not dead, I must live. Upon waking up, I find that I am as distraught as I was the night before.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shadows of life, death and survival in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Scielo. (January 2015)
“Every morning, I put one foot in front of the other and I don't know if I am moving forward or backward.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shadows of life, death and survival in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Scielo. (January 2015)
“I was not born to live. I died at birth. The small grave was already dug. Everybody was ready for my funeral. Only my mother clung to the crumpled little corpse, refusing to let it be buried.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shadows of life, death and survival in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Scielo. (January 2015)
“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.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CCNR’s Lemkin Reunion Reflects on the Rwandan Genocide 20 Years Later. CEU. (October 2014)
“We were condemned to live.”
Esther Mujawayo (born 1958) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CCNR’s Lemkin Reunion Reflects on the Rwandan Genocide 20 Years Later. CEU. (October 2014)