Refugee Quotes · Page 5

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

— Pope Francis

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

— Anne Carson

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

— Martin Schulz

I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.

— Milana Vayntrub

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

— Jeff Fortenberry

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

— Queen Noor of Jordan

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

— Malcolm Fraser

I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to…

— Khaled Hosseini

For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.

— Donald Trump

We have to make sure whenever you are dealing with big things like global warming, world security, refugees, the E.U. question, access…

— Birgitta Jonsdottir

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

— Bill McKibben

I hate taking refugees. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not…

— Donald Trump

You see in Islam, you see in Christianity, you see in Africa, in different religions, in Buddhism and Hinduism, there is a…

— Antonio Guterres

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown…

— Antonio Guterres

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in…

— Michael Franti

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they…

— Ismail Haniyeh

At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror…

— Vladimir Putin

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are…

— Pope Francis

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora,…

— Mahmoud Abbas

I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to…

— Martin Schulz

Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have…

— Pope Francis

As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story…

— Andrew Lam

“Back in 1992, the camp originally held ninety thousand Somali refugees fleeing the civil war. They had reproduced. Then others had come:…

— Ben Rawlence

Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways.…

— Surya Das

For me, respect is an extremely important political term. Since I began campaigning, it has been at the heart of each of…

— Martin Schulz

It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that…

— Rick Rowley

Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the…

— Sadako Ogata

“Hassan said, "I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron." Colin shook his head, "Too obvious. I'm a Spaniard. A…

— John Green

When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews,…

— Alan Dershowitz

“A smile is a charity like a million bucks to the refugee.”

— Isam Bachiri

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

— Michael Leiter

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

— Mamie Gummer

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Mahnaz Afkhami

“Anyone who thinks it’s easy to get to the States as a refugee has no idea.”

— Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees,

— Elie Wiesel