Ruth Messinger Quotations

If we allow genocide anywhere in the world, it will happen again somewhere else, unless we make it crystal clear to the perpetrators that it is unacceptable any time, any place.

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

The 'disaster to development' model helps people move beyond emergency to self-sufficiency. It's already working in the tsunami zone, and we are looking forward to the positive effects it will have in Pakistan.

Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.

Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

If there's one thing that Jews understand, it's the danger of silence from the international community.

We protested today to show Sudanese dictator General Omar Al-Bashir that we hold him personally accountable for this worsening, three-year genocide and that we will keep the pressure on him, and on the international community until it ends.