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I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people... See if they will not live again. See if they will not laugh again.

A defiant declaration of Armenian survival and identity, written in memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

William Saroyan, Armenia

Source: William Saroyan, "The Armenian and the Armenian," in Inhale and Exhale (Random House, 1936)

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