April 24, 1915

"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