Immaculee Quotes

#1. I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#2. The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#3. I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#4. Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#5. You called me a pendejo."
"You are a pendejo," Ty grunted.

Abigail Roux

#6. The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#7. To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#8. This is the same power that I feel propelling me forward into the next phase of my life. God saved my soul and spared my life for a reason: He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#9. When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

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#10. They can only kill us once.

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#11. Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#12. I guess my mom was all he had-the one flower that smelled like freedom

Banana Yoshimoto

#13. God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#14. The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God's true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred?

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#15. I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#16. Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#17. We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

Shane Eric Mathias

#18. Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#19. KISS: Keep it smart = simple.

Selim Tolga

#20. The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#21. I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#22. Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

Bruce Jackson

#23. Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

Immaculee Ilibagiza