Refugee Quotes · Page 4

Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.

— Tom Tancredo

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

— Chris Cleave

“Let my story remind you that behind every refugee is a human being, a unique story waiting to be heard.”

— Hagir Elsheikh

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

— Michael T. Flynn

As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.

— Frank Lowy

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

— Donald Trump

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

— Louis MacNeice

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

— Louis Farrakhan

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning… I generally look…

— Connie Chung

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must…

— Yoweri Museveni

Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So…

— Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

— Noam Chomsky

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his…

— Hillary Clinton

I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over…

— Rupi Kaur

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great…

— Pope Francis

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

— Michael Bond

The route for the refugees currently goes through Greece and the Balkans or through Italy; if there were a crisis in north-eastern…

— Paolo Gentiloni

“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through…

— Richard Flanagan

I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights…

— Judith Butler

[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do…

— John McCain

Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was…

— Antonio Guterres

In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

“You know, people only travel really with their seeds, and with their songs. In Bosnia they interviewed a lot of refugees... they'd…

— Tom Waits

In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the…

— Eran Riklis

Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read…

— Mohsin Hamid

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go…

— Anne Lamott

“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in…

— Eric Weiner

“FLIES IN DISGUISE Tell me, Have you Really seen Flies in a child's eyes Or heard their hungry cries In the middle…

— Suzy Kassem

We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need…

— Chris Christie

Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees.…

— Marco Rubio

The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of…

— Walter E. Williams

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no…

— Phyllis Bottome

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

— Michael Leiter

66 percent of Americans agree in a temporary ban of refugees entering the United States!

— Sean Hannity

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

— Phyllis Bennis

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

— Elie Wiesel

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

— Michael Mullen

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

— Connie Sellecca