The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed wit…

- Roméo Dallaire

For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, str…

- Roméo Dallaire

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it…

- Roméo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

- Roméo Dallaire

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

- Roméo Dallaire

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are g…

- Roméo Dallaire

I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil ex…

- Roméo Dallaire

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

- Roméo Dallaire

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a w…

- Roméo Dallaire