Quotes and Sayings About Refugee
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We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
-- Ariel Dorfman -
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
-- Chris Cleave -
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
-- Chris Cleave -
Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.
-- Cynthia Basinet -
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
-- Edith Cavell -
If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.
-- Gamal Abdel Nasser -
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr. -
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
-- Kofi Annan -
Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
-- Leonard Cohen -
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.
-- Louis MacNeice -
My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
-- Mamie Gummer -
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
-- Nina Fedoroff -
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?
-- Scott Simon -
The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.
-- Kareem Mortimer -
Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.
-- Lawrence O'Donnell -
I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.
-- Michael T. Flynn -
Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.
-- Michael T. Flynn -
We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.
-- Michal Rovner -
The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.
-- Randall Price -
Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So there's not a whole lot of experience with refugees here.
-- Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson -
What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.
-- Yasmine Elmasri
