Refugee Quotes · Page 2

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

— Antonio Guterres

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,…

— Isabel Allende

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy.…

— Yanis Varoufakis

I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you…

— Paolo Gentiloni

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than…

— Patch Adams

We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a…

— Cameron Sinclair

Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant…

— Adam Hochschild

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

— John McCain

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

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a…

— Uma Krishnaswami

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

What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps…

— Moshe Dayan

On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed…

— Ted Cruz

Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind…

— Julian Assange

At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their…

— Julien Clerc

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was…

— John Gimlette

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

— Thomas de Maiziere

[Donald Trump] has said that very consistently [about border], the contrast with Hillary Clinton, who supports amnesty, open borders, who wants to…

— Mike Pence

[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

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live…

— Pearl S. Buck

What has happened in the last generation is that Tijuana has become a new Third World capital - much to the chagrin…

— Richard Rodriguez

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

Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh…

— Pope Francis

I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

— Kareena Kapoor Khan

World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in…

— Ann Curry