Refugee Quotes - Page 11

• It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to my country, my academic rigor, my courage in going to interview terrorists, and refugee camps, and third-world prisons.

  Paula Broadwell

  Country, Careers, World

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it is surrounded by high walls, by watchtowers and by guard-dogs, for people always want to escape from any socialist regime, just as they do from a prison. If you continue your attempts to establish a model society you will need to build walls around it. You will be forced to do so sooner or later by the flood of refugees.

  Viktor Suvorov

  Dog, Wall, People

  "Inside the Soviet Army". Book by Viktor Suvorov, 1982.

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• We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

  Fatos Nano

  Mean, Talking, Europe

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• In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

  Marco Rubio

  Refugee Crisis, Community, Fleeing

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  Fatos Nano

  Europe, Switzerland, Germany

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• My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

  Masiela Lusha

  Who I Am, Albania, Humanitarian

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  War, Reality, Thinking

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

  Elliott Carter

  Paris, Flow, Very Sad

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• I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard and they went to bed hungry, but they fed us. Then my father became an ambassador, so I ended up being driven by chauffeurs. And then we became refugees. After that, I looked at it through this "glass" of to have and have not, and at the end of the day, who actually helps, who actually steps up, who is there for you.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Growing Up, Father, Glasses

  Source: time.com

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• Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

  Uma Krishnaswami

  War, Heart, Emotional

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• Men can get jobs from one country to another, they can get in. But the people who always fell through the cracks were women and children, especially when you are displaced. I've always said, 'I am the face of a refugee.'

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Source: time.com

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

  Marco Rubio

  Country, News, Lasts

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• In fiction, it's as if you enter a dream world that you created, but your characters have their own free will. They don't do what you want them to do - they get into trouble, do drugs, fight over petty things, and do outrageous things that you wouldn't want your children to do. In other words, you can only provide the background, the seeds - in my case the background of the Vietnamese refugee.

  Andrew Lam

  Dream, Children, Character

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Sex, Zimbabwe

  Condoleezza Rice's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Credentials, Elizabeth Ii, Descendants

  The Observer, July 03, 1977.

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• The West and its media have barely covered the recent wave of repression in Turkey. The reason is simple. They are paying billions to Ankara to control and take back the refugees of the Syrian war. They are fearful that if they offend Tayyip Erdogan he will use the refugees as a political weapon. So they keep quiet.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Simple, Political

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

  Bill McKibben

  People, Environmental, Might

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Pyramids, Top Down, Israel

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• When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me, my stomach was always hungry, and my fear and distrust kept me from opening up to new friendships. I thought the war was over when I left Cambodia, but I realize now that for survivors and all those involved, the war is never over just because the guns have fallen silent.

  Loung Ung

  War, Gun, Opening Up

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• I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll see major conflicts over water and the proliferation of water refugees. We inhabit a water planet, and unless we protect, manage, and restore that resource, the future will be a very different place from the one we imagine today.

  Alexandra Cousteau

  Believe, Water, Storm

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• On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.

  Ted Cruz

  Eight, Immigration, Borders

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.

  Ted Cruz

  Eight, People, Risk

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to - to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

  Benjamin Carson

  Choices, Would Be, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• On the Gang of Eight bill, there was no provisions really for extra scrutiny or safety for refugees. At the time the bill came up, two Iraqi refugees came to my home town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their fingerprints were on a bomb from Iraq. They were in the database, but we didn't pick them up.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Two, Iraq

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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