Angelina Jolie Quotes About Refugees

Quotes about: Refugees

• It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, Middle East, Towns

  "Angelina Jolie Writes NYT Op-Ed on Visiting Syria and Iraq: "Nothing Prepares You". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 27, 2015.

• In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Home, People

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

  Angelina Jolie

  Heart, Done, Spirit

• I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, People, World

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

  Angelina Jolie

  Safety, Helping, Moral

  Angelina Jolie's Address to UN Security Council on ongoing refugee crisis in Syria, www.unrefugees.org. April 24, 2015.

• I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Strong, School

  "Do I need to defend that I'm a decent woman?'". "Today Show" with Ann Curry, www.today.com. June 6, 2005.

• To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Source: www.lasplash.com

• It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the whole situation is that people don't know the difference between a migrant and a refugee; they don't have respect for what people are coming from - the people who against it - and they have completely forgotten this is what built our country, the diversity. When it is put forward that masses of people are dangerous, and the actual numbers and the situation are proven to be completely the opposite of the way they're presented publicly, it's horrible.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, People, Diversity

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Children, Learning

• I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Jobs, Issues

  "A Minute With: Angelina Jolie, femme fatale and busy Mom". Interview with John Irish, www.reuters.com. December 9, 2010.

• 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

  Thinking, People, Privilege

  "A Mighty Heart - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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