Refugee Quotes

I come from a refugee family.

— Ralf Rangnick

I've always been in danger, but I don't mind.

— Sima Samar

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

— Leonard Cohen

Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

— Donald Trump

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

— Ariel Dorfman

We can't turn Italy into a refugee camp.

— Matteo Salvini

I've never stopped being a refugee.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

— Diane Guerrero

“When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall, the migrant soul becomes the all.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.

— Stephen Miller

If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

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

— Philip Emeagwali

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

— Euripides

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

— Vivienne Westwood

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

— Joseph Sobran

“The mentality of a refugee, forcibly expelled from his home, is not that of an emigrant who leaves to seek his fortune:…

— Anne Applebaum

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause…

— Scott Simon

My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio…

— Michael Portillo

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the…

— Richard Flanagan

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend…

— Angelina Jolie

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came…

— Masiela Lusha

[Hillary Clinton] is been honest about how many people she wants to enter the country unquestioned, unvetted, both illegal immigrants and refugees.

— Rush Limbaugh

The idea that you can separate jihadi terrorism from Islam is exactly what got us in the mess we are today, with…

— Sebastian Gorka

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee…

— Geraldine Brooks

What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps…

— Moshe Dayan

The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela…

— Barack Obama

If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of…

— John F. Kerry

If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to…

— Indira Gandhi

“I had a number of German and Austrian refugee friends in London and they kept on telephoning in consternation as the news…

— Frances Faviell

The whole country saw how unfit [Hillary Clinton] was at the Townhall , where she refused to take accountability for her failed…

— Donald Trump

The same goes for the refugees. Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi says ten million. It's obvious she started with that figure in order to legalize…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers…

— Julia Sweeney

I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the…

— Alan Gratz

At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR…

— Malcolm Fraser

“As a child, she believed he was the kindest man she knew. But slowly over the years, Baba became a stranger and…

— Dina Nayeri

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was…

— John Gimlette

“In your country, if you are not scared enough already, you can go to watch a horror film... For me and the…

— Chris Cleave

Since it took up office, the Commission which I lead has pursued a clear policy: we need less interference from Brussels when…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to…

— Uri Avnery