Refugee Quotes - Page 3

• When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Budapest, Study, Refugee Camps

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• In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

  Jack Steinberger

  Christmas, New York, Children

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• At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened.

  Julien Clerc

  Team, Passion, Commitment

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• America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!

  Carlos Bulosan

  Country, Jobs, Book

  Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.22, University of Washington Press

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• The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Strong, Hardship, Made

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• We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Childhood, Gone

  "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia". Book by Mohsin Hamid, February 27, 2013.

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• There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they were born. I hope we face reality in time to save ourselves. We will all be migrants soon.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Reality, People

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• The first thing Syrian refugees want is to be able to live within Syria. That means help, humanitarian help, the way we understand it, food, medical care, any other, let's say, basics for the daily life.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Hands, Democracy

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• The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this has happened. There were a significant number of people who didn`t want Jewish refugees before World War II, or even during World War II.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  War, Numbers, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's amazing that Europe says, "What are we going to do with these refugees?" It's as if it doesn't realize that being part of NATO and bombing these countries forces them to choose to live by fleeing, or to stay and get bombed.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Europe, Fleeing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

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• I'm constantly amazed when I talk with people in the international stage and I refer to immigrants or refugees as new Canadians. We don't even think about that. It's just what you are: you're new Canadians.

  Justin Trudeau

  Thinking, People, Stage

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

  Greg Mortenson

  Christian, War, Widows And Orphans

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson, books.google.ru. 2006.

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• 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, Havens

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Borders, States

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

  Ted Turner

  Country, War, Goal

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• In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Future, Equality, Rights

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• We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

  Isabel Allende

  Peace, People, Eras

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). “Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition”, p.58, University of Texas Press

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• People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep the people of my state safe. So we take a pause [in taking refugees].

  John Kasich

  Heart, People, Safe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

  Al Gore

  Taken, Fire, Ice

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

  Pearl S. Buck

  America, Justice, Diversity

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• It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Country, Trying, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The idea that you can separate jihadi terrorism from Islam is exactly what got us in the mess we are today, with 65 million refugees around the world and with ISIS controlling territory in multiple countries.

  Sebastian Gorka

  Country, Isis, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.

  Eric Ripert

  Mother, Spring, War

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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