Refugee Quotes · Page 3

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.

— Cynthia Basinet

I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

— Angelina Jolie

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

— Mohsin Hamid

I deserved the National Award for 'Border,' but got it for 'Refugee.'

— Anu Malik

“I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

— Kofi Annan

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”

— Ruta Sepetys

I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white…

— Kola Boof

I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they…

— Kofi Annan

I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at…

— Alek Wek

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new…

— Donald Trump

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

— Milana Vayntrub

The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames…

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

I love 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid. It's a magical realism retelling of the refugee experience, where people find these magical doors…

— Julien Baker

“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same…

— Will Schwalbe

I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If…

— Paul Bettany

I believe that Israel must concede to the Palestinian right of return in principle. Israel must, first of all, assume its responsibility…

— Uri Avnery

We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time,…

— Eric Ripert

Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as…

— Stanley Ho

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation,…

— Dervla Murphy

In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority…

— Mike Pence

So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary…

— Alan K. Simpson

Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life…

— Howard Thurman

“a man named Dalton, a District 10 refugee who’d made it to 13 on foot a few years ago, leaked the real…

— Suzanne Collins

Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq is clearly a 'client' state of the West, of Turkey and to some extent, Israel. It is…

— Andre Vltchek

I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees…

— Pope Francis

I met with many of - a number of [Syrian] refugees in Berlin the other day, and I was struck by how…

— John F. Kerry

Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but…

— Moshe Arens

“Over the years I forced myself to be creative in how I covered the same scenes over and over. I started shooting…

— Lynsey Addario

“The refugee card was and continues to be an insult to remind us of the little that refugees get in comparison with…

— Refaat Alareer

There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some…

— Mandy Patinkin

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

— Paul Virilio

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

— Mamie Gummer

I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees…

— Ryan Zinke

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

— Elliott Carter

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

— Sarah Hanson-Young

There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

— Thomas de Maiziere

My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

— Geert Wilders

We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

— Viktor Orban