An Ordinary Man (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Paul Rusesabagina: The acting general manager of the Hotel des Mille Colinnes in Kigali, Rwanda who saved over 1000 people during the genocide.
• Tatiana: Paul Rusesabagina's second wife and a Tutsi.
• Juvenal Habyarimana: The Hutu president of Rwanda who's assasination marked the beginning of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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• “I looked into the abyss during the genocide, and the abyss looked back and we were able to reach a compromise that was actually no compromise at all. ... Tools of death became reappropriated. They were now tools of life.”

  Paul Rusesabagina

• “If a man can keep a fierce lion under his roof, why can he not shelter a fellow human being?”

  Paul Rusesabagina

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• Words are the most effective weapons of death in man’s arsenal. But they can also be powerful tools of life.

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• Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

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• Words can be instruments of evil, but they can also be powerful tools of life.

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• Rwandans are expected to offer shelter to the distressed, no matter what the circumstances. I took this lesson as gospel,

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• It is so much easier to die anonymously; it is so much harder to kill someone after you have talked as one human being to another.

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• I learned that it is very difficult to fight someone with whom you are already talking.

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• If you stay friendly with monsters you can find cracks in their armor to exploit. Shut them out and they can kill you without a second thought.

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• It was where I first understood that in order to make progress as a man you had to take a journey.

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• In Rwanda, political power has always been linked with control of history.

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• Between April 6, when the plane of President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down with a missile, and July 4, when the Tutsi rebel army captured the capital of Kigali, approximately eight hundred thousand Rwandans were slaughtered.

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Organizations edit see section history

• UN: United Nations

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Paul Rusesabagina (Author)
2. Tom Zoellner (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 967.5710431092

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › History › Africa › Rwanda
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Hotel Rwanda: A movie based on Paul Rusesabagina just prior to and during the genocide of 1994. Don Cheadle played Rusesabagina.

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