Refugee Quotes: top 56 famous quotes about Refugee

Refugee Quotes & Sayings

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I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee. — M.I.A.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Every person who comes is a human being and has the right to be treated as such. — Angela Merkel

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase. — Michael Bond

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. — Connie Sellecca

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time. — Isabel Allende

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

I've always been in danger, but I don't mind. — Sima Samar

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. — Ruta Sepetys

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character. — Paul Kagame

I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe! — Lawrence Durrell

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget. — Ann Curry

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz. — M.R. Carey

Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics. — Mohith Agadi

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not. — Lawrence O'Donnell

From Shore To Shore
Our Message of Love & Peace
To ALL OUR Kids — Widad Akreyi

I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY. US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain — Ron Suskind

The refugee in Syria doesn't benefit more if you conserve your kindness only for her and withhold it from your neighbor who's going through a divorce. — Brene Brown

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees. — Edith Cavell

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! — George Habash

causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One — Kim Stanley Robinson

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library. — Zia Haider Rahman

But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly. — Ruta Sepetys

the worst subsistence humanism promotes lies in refugee of denigration on mere inventions for their own brothers — Abdul Rehman

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk. — Justin Trudeau

About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941. — Richard Rhodes

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing. — Auliq Ice

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee — Leonard Cohen

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee. — William Grimes

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. — Tony Abbott

There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee. — Audie Cornish

There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it. — Andre Vltchek

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust. — Martti Ahtisaari

I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill. — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that. — Javier Bardem

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. — Ariel Dorfman

Your enemy is not the refugee. Your enemy is the one who made him a refugee. — Tariq Ramadan

Our children will be told what Israel has done.' graffiti on the Wall in Bethlehem, opposite Aida refugee camp, 2008 — William Parry

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories! — Phyllis Bottome

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself. — Poul Hartling

Driving through the refugee camp made us think about how embarrassingly frivolous most of our problems are. — Brad Van Orden

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One — Catherine Stine

I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land. — Debasish Mridha

My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network. — Mamie Gummer

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. — Anne Carson

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. — Philip Emeagwali

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues. — Cynthia Basinet

There's nothing like living as a refugee in one's own country to turn a generous soul into a hard little fist. — Barbara Kingsolver

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself. — Barack Obama

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile. — Iman

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. — Chris Cleave

My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17. — Sarah Gavron

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. — Madeleine Albright

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed. — Robertson Davies