Elie Wiesel Quotes About Refugees

Quotes about: Refugees

• Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

  Elie Wiesel

  Attitude, Yesterday, Today

• Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

  Elie Wiesel

  Once Upon A Time, Found, Refugee

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

  Elie Wiesel

  Home, Mean, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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