Refugees Quotes

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive ... — Tony Benn

refugees fleeing a fire. — Rick Riordan

am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth. — Swami Vivekananda

There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State. — Thomas De Maiziere

I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl! — Thanhha Lai

Love will cost you dearly.
And it will break your heart.
But in the end, it will save the world. — Sarah Thebarge

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees, — Elie Wiesel

If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities. — J. Richard Singleton

I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees. — Malala Yousafzai

We are all refugees, and we have the scar to prove it. — Donald O'Donovan

Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on. — Andrew Crofts

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

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans. — Lawrence O'Donnell

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own. — Andrei Codrescu

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead. — Konrad Adenauer

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet. — David Letterman

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country? — Marco Rubio

We glide and I feel as if I'm floating. — Thanhha Lai

I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life. — Yasmine Al Masri

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift ... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive. — Angelina Jolie

My brothers are retro-refugees in the new exile of the asylum-seekers' hostel. — Lidija Dimkovska

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity — Julien Clerc

They were refugees: unwanted and without any rights. Without any voice. — Sarah J. Maas

Referring to Palestinian refugees: We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return. — David Ben-Gurion

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses. — Donald Trump

Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world. — Ronald Reagan

To the north the Indonesian Air Force strafed Australian ships that were attempting to repel refugees from Indonesia and Timor and Papua. In — James Bradley

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves. — Chris Cleave

Mostly, I wish I were still smart. — Thanhha Lai

J&K, why refugees can vote in the Lok Sabha but not in state polls, — Anonymous

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world. — Ismail Haniyeh

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil. — Andrew Crofts

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future. — Alethea Kontis

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts. — Michael Bassey Johnson

During the early days following the Catacendre, refugees from Terris had written down memories of their homeland, as no Keepers had remained. — Brandon Sanderson

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees. — Martin Schulz

No, Mr. Johnston doesn't have a horse, nor has he ever ridden one. What kind of a cowboy is he? — Thanhha Lai

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return — David Ben-Gurion

We are all wanderers and travellers, refugees and pilgrims until we return once more to the stars. — David Almond

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children. — Lawrence O'Donnell

He walks through the river of refugees and soldiers, giving purpose and direction to people who would otherwise be lost. — Susan Ee

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream. — Joseph Sobran

War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent. — Suzy Kassem

How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country? — Thanhha Lai

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always. — Angelina Jolie

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. — Warsan Shire

She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land. — Padma Lakshmi

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me. — Carlos Fuentes

Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It — Bobby Adair

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

The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores. — A.E. Samaan

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees. — Louis MacNeice

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words. — Angelina Jolie

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. — Elliott Carter

The threat to Europe comes not in the form of uniforms, but in the tattered garb of refugees, — Robert D. Kaplan

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. — Nina Fedoroff

Taking Mum's hand, I whispered Are we really safe, here? — Alwyn Evans

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time. — Donald Trump

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety. — Angelina Jolie

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down, — Sarah Hanson-Young

As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil. — Warren Eyster

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. — Ted Turner

When people make wars, they make refugees. — Michael Morpurgo