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Many people were not at their homes, if they were, it would have been a massacre. – Scott Jr.	Found on CNN 1 year ago
In the past three months, there has been an increasing number of civilians killed. The number of mass killings committed by the military has increased and… the military has been using more forms of violence against the people, the casualties in this massacre… it’s very clear that they are civilians (and) not involved in any kind of opposition movement against the military. – Aung Myo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Because my grandfather, from what I can tell, could not prove that his parents owned or his grandparents owned any property at the time of the massacre, I’m assuming that’s why his application was denied. – Jonathan Barry-Blocker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
After we lost 19 children and two teachers in a massacre in Uvalde, Texas, her first vote in the United States Congress was a no vote on the Keep Communities Safer Act. – Vicente Gonzalez	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We look forward to proving our case around the Massacre's ongoing catastrophic effects and demonstrating the actions that defendants must take to repair and rebuild the Greenwood community during our clients' lifetimes. – Damario Solomon-Simmons	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's slashings. There's shootings, my last email to the mayor's office was that, amongst other things, we just had a massacre in Texas, an unstable man who was ignored, but it's not like people didn't know he was unstable. We have a park of mentally unstable people currently slashing and shooting each other. What would make us think this wouldn't turn into something much more tragic ? – Elizabeth Clay	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Urgent questions about the police response to the massacre have not been answered with clarity or consistency, and residents' frustration began to boil over on social media, the information gap became a partisan talking point, and elected officials began to demand answers and an investigation. – Marc Duvoisin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm just back at another massacre and going through this again, trying to find a healing process. – Latisha Rogers	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The findings of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry in its report defining the atrocities at the toll gate as a massacre, is a big win and leads us on a pathway to obtaining justice for many of the innocent victims, survivors and lost souls still lying in unmarked graves. i hope all the recommendations are carried out. On one part is admitting it happened, on another part is accountability. – Serah Ibrahim	Found on CNN 2 years ago
An unjust world: I denounce Marijuana and you call me a monster. I denounce same sex marriage, same sex relationships, and same sex intercourse and you call me a monster. I denounce military style weapons and open carry for civilian use and you say I'm violating your rights. I denounce alcohol which causes crashes and fatalities, health problems, high crime rates, your more susceptible to injuries and it's a squandering of tax dollars and resources and you call me a monster because I want to abolish it. You underage drink and steal booze but you say I'm the bad guy. You do drugs and steroids and you call me evil. Your irresponsible and get pregnant at 15 and you say I'm abusing the system. You bully people everyday and then when they go on a massacre you call them monsters and evil but really your the monster, your the evil one for bullying them and harming them and forcing them into causing a massacre. You spray paint stop signs, you vandalize public and private property but you call me a delinquent. You cheat, lie , rape, murder, etc, etc, but I'm the monster for defending myself, I'm the monster for standing up for what is right. You bring your children into a world of violence and abuse them but I'm the monster, you call me the criminal. The way I see it, humanity is the monster, humanity is the criminal, not me. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 2 years ago
I will never forget the violence of the White mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I can not. – Viola Fletcher	Found on CNN 2 years ago
White survivors of the massacre stopped talking about it, black survivors only whispered about it, because there was a real fear among Black people that it could happen again, and it did in other places. – L. Brown	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve spent a lot of time in Central Africa because my dad is from the Congo, and some of the propaganda that’s being spread right now here in Evanston is similar to some of the divisiveness that took place in Rwanda before the massacre. – Ndona Muboyayi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're not asking for a handout. All we are asking for is for a chance to be treated like a first-class citizen who truly is a beneficiary of the promise that this is a land where there is' liberty and justice for all, we are asking for justice for a lifetime of ongoing harm. Harm that was caused by Tulsa Race Massacre. – Van Ellis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The whole structure is rotten to the core, they( authorities) have told us they are putting more resources into solving this than any other massacre in history, but a year on no one has been convicted for pulling the trigger, everyone promised us they would take each person who participated and bring them to justice, but I dont know what that means. – Julian LeBaron	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question. – Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Before this highway was built, this was a one-way rail system. The witness said that his grandfather took him up to the tracks and told him that during the massacre they brought in rail flats right here where this road goes down the middle of Oaklawn Cemetery, they built a trench, they dug a trench and dumped bodies down into the trenches, he said there had to have been an excess of 300 bodies in that one location alone. – Chief Egunwale Amusan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In a massacre, there’s no decent place to stand. – Leonard Cohen	added by Normando 3 years ago
Yesterday there was a massacre, it's not normal in Germany, and I hope it's not going to become normal. Our history should teach us that we can't allow nationalist, racist and xenophobic elements to define our image. – Burhan Qurbani	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was set to get married one week after the massacre. – Kendra Miller	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We call on European countries to use their energy to stop the massacre in Idlib, rather than trying to corner Turkey for the legitimate steps it took in Syria. – President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If they are not sure they cant prevent a massacre overnight, then please shut the power off, id rather be hot and my food go bad, than dozens more die. – Jessica Tunis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
For anyone to characterize the fact that the President is taking care to make sure our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are safe as somehow being a greenlight for a massacre is irresponsible and doesn't comport with the reality of the situation. – United States	Found on CNN 4 years ago

Many people were not at their homes, if they were, it would have been a massacre.

– Scott Jr.

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In the past three months, there has been an increasing number of civilians killed. The number of mass killings committed by the military has increased and… the military has been using more forms of violence against the people, the casualties in this massacre… it’s very clear that they are civilians (and) not involved in any kind of opposition movement against the military.

– Aung Myo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Because my grandfather, from what I can tell, could not prove that his parents owned or his grandparents owned any property at the time of the massacre, I’m assuming that’s why his application was denied.

– Jonathan Barry-Blocker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After we lost 19 children and two teachers in a massacre in Uvalde, Texas, her first vote in the United States Congress was a no vote on the Keep Communities Safer Act.

– Vicente Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We look forward to proving our case around the Massacre's ongoing catastrophic effects and demonstrating the actions that defendants must take to repair and rebuild the Greenwood community during our clients' lifetimes.

– Damario Solomon-Simmons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's slashings. There's shootings, my last email to the mayor's office was that, amongst other things, we just had a massacre in Texas, an unstable man who was ignored, but it's not like people didn't know he was unstable. We have a park of mentally unstable people currently slashing and shooting each other. What would make us think this wouldn't turn into something much more tragic ?

– Elizabeth Clay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Urgent questions about the police response to the massacre have not been answered with clarity or consistency, and residents' frustration began to boil over on social media, the information gap became a partisan talking point, and elected officials began to demand answers and an investigation.

– Marc Duvoisin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm just back at another massacre and going through this again, trying to find a healing process.

– Latisha Rogers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The findings of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry in its report defining the atrocities at the toll gate as a massacre, is a big win and leads us on a pathway to obtaining justice for many of the innocent victims, survivors and lost souls still lying in unmarked graves. i hope all the recommendations are carried out. On one part is admitting it happened, on another part is accountability.

– Serah Ibrahim

Found on CNN
2 years ago

An unjust world: I denounce Marijuana and you call me a monster. I denounce same sex marriage, same sex relationships, and same sex intercourse and you call me a monster. I denounce military style weapons and open carry for civilian use and you say I'm violating your rights. I denounce alcohol which causes crashes and fatalities, health problems, high crime rates, your more susceptible to injuries and it's a squandering of tax dollars and resources and you call me a monster because I want to abolish it. You underage drink and steal booze but you say I'm the bad guy. You do drugs and steroids and you call me evil. Your irresponsible and get pregnant at 15 and you say I'm abusing the system. You bully people everyday and then when they go on a massacre you call them monsters and evil but really your the monster, your the evil one for bullying them and harming them and forcing them into causing a massacre. You spray paint stop signs, you vandalize public and private property but you call me a delinquent. You cheat, lie , rape, murder, etc, etc, but I'm the monster for defending myself, I'm the monster for standing up for what is right. You bring your children into a world of violence and abuse them but I'm the monster, you call me the criminal. The way I see it, humanity is the monster, humanity is the criminal, not me.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

I will never forget the violence of the White mob when we left our home. I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams. I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I can not.

– Viola Fletcher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

White survivors of the massacre stopped talking about it, black survivors only whispered about it, because there was a real fear among Black people that it could happen again, and it did in other places.

– L. Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve spent a lot of time in Central Africa because my dad is from the Congo, and some of the propaganda that’s being spread right now here in Evanston is similar to some of the divisiveness that took place in Rwanda before the massacre.

– Ndona Muboyayi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're not asking for a handout. All we are asking for is for a chance to be treated like a first-class citizen who truly is a beneficiary of the promise that this is a land where there is' liberty and justice for all, we are asking for justice for a lifetime of ongoing harm. Harm that was caused by Tulsa Race Massacre.

– Van Ellis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The whole structure is rotten to the core, they( authorities) have told us they are putting more resources into solving this than any other massacre in history, but a year on no one has been convicted for pulling the trigger, everyone promised us they would take each person who participated and bring them to justice, but I dont know what that means.

– Julian LeBaron

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our work continues to find the graves of our fellow Tulsans who went missing during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Today, we begin a test excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery to determine what is causing an underground anomaly found by geophysical scanning conducted earlier this year, because the scan is consistent with a mass grave, a team of some of the foremost researchers in the nation have assembled in Tulsa to assess both the presence and the condition of any human remains at the site in question.

– Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Before this highway was built, this was a one-way rail system. The witness said that his grandfather took him up to the tracks and told him that during the massacre they brought in rail flats right here where this road goes down the middle of Oaklawn Cemetery, they built a trench, they dug a trench and dumped bodies down into the trenches, he said there had to have been an excess of 300 bodies in that one location alone.

– Chief Egunwale Amusan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In a massacre, there’s no decent place to stand.

– Leonard Cohen

added by Normando
3 years ago

Yesterday there was a massacre, it's not normal in Germany, and I hope it's not going to become normal. Our history should teach us that we can't allow nationalist, racist and xenophobic elements to define our image.

– Burhan Qurbani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was set to get married one week after the massacre.

– Kendra Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We call on European countries to use their energy to stop the massacre in Idlib, rather than trying to corner Turkey for the legitimate steps it took in Syria.

– President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If they are not sure they cant prevent a massacre overnight, then please shut the power off, id rather be hot and my food go bad, than dozens more die.

– Jessica Tunis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

For anyone to characterize the fact that the President is taking care to make sure our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are safe as somehow being a greenlight for a massacre is irresponsible and doesn't comport with the reality of the situation.

– United States

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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