Emmanuel Jal Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.”

“A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.”

“There's no pride in having been a child soldier.”

“Education is the only solution for peace.”

“If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.”

“War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.”

“If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.”

“The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.”

“What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.”

“As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'”