I've been working for refugees for years and years and…

The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in…

— Vanessa Redgrave

I've identified all my life with refugees.

— Vanessa Redgrave

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

— Antonio Guterres

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

— Sajid Javid

In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome…

— Ilhan Omar

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter…

— Yitzhak Shamir

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…

— Elie Wiesel

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Scott Simon

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go…

— Stewart Stafford

“The next morning, the refugees rose from their agitation to the realization that they were slowly being erased from the world, from its history…

— Anonymous

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the…

— Michael Hudson