“I should
like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of
unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures
have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more
answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the
desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they
will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the
world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.”
William Saroyan, Armenian-American, 1908-1981