All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother. — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees. — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
I was working on refugee issues in 1993, as the refugee coordinator for the Horn of Africa. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase. — Michael Bond Copy Share Image
Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The truth is that people - many people are concerned about this, but this is not the first time in America this… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
Distance is where people get really confused. If you stand really far away from someone you're like, "That's not me. I'm so… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora,… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the… — Eran Riklis Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In your country, if you are not scared enough already, you can go to watch a horror film... For me and the… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
