Ishmael Beah War Quotations
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- All War Quotes
- Sun Tzu
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Winston Churchill
- Abraham Lincoln
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- George W Bush
- Thomas Jefferson
- Carl Von Clausewitz
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- Ronald Reagan
- Noam Chomsky
- Adolf Hitler
- William Shakespeare
- Albert Einstein
- Kurt Vonnegut
- George Orwell
- Douglas Macarthur
- Franklin D Roosevelt
- John F Kennedy
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Age Quotes
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
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Views Quotes
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.
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Country Quotes
Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.
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Aftermath Quotes
The thing that really gets to me is that countries are in the news only when things get out of hand. That's when it's newsworthy. When the war ends, it's not newsworthy anymore; no one wants to think about it. Actually, the aftermath is the most important part. It's when people have to rebuild.
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Trusting Each Other Quotes
Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.