Quotes From "The Translator: A Tribesmans Memoir Of Darfur" By Daoud Hari

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If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth. Daoud Hari
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What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth? Daoud Hari
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Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it. Daoud Hari