Migrants Quotes - Page 5

• South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Couple, Years, Land

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• Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

  Debra Dean

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Hands, Perspective

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Numbers, Europe, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nobody wants anybody who's radical, who wants to move in here to be able to gain access. I said we should take a pause on these Syrian migrants. And I believe we should do that.

  John Kasich

  Believe, Moving, Want

  "Trump, Rubio, Sanders, Cruz, & Kasich". "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

  Stephen Colbert

  Powerful, Rights, Talking

  "Colbert Annoys Press Corps . . . Again" by Jeff Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.

  Sadiq Khan

  Bankers, Blame, Greedy

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

  Eric Schlosser

  Country, Book, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able to do anything, anybody not able to do what they can do. The daily lessons of exclusion, having hand-me-down books in schools, of seeing ambulances turn away and not give health care for people lying in the streets who are migrant workers. Everything I do today stems from that segregated existence.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Lying, Book

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• We are hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The imam preached there to the migrants go in to Western Europe, build your enclaves there, breed their women and do not associate or assimilate into the broader society.

  Steve King

  Europe, Mosques, Jerusalem

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.

  Barack Obama

  Compassion, Europe, Islands

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• [Pope Francis] continued to focus on migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos, which was the front line of the European migrant crisis. And a month later, he accepted a prestigious European Union prize, but he scolded Europe for its treatment of migrants. And in a speech echoing Martin Luther King, he said I have a dream of a Europe where being a migrant is not a crime. So, yeah, he showed he can be quite outspoken on political issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Dream, Kings, Europe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Organization, Progress

  Source: time.com

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• Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa - previously people fleeing those problems didn't end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by [Muammar] Gaddafi: 'What do these Europeans think they're doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There's going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe, and this is exactly what happened.

  Julian Assange

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.

  Julian Assange

  Isis, Tick, Clinton

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• [Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Texas, United States, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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