Refugee Quotes · Page 9

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

— Julien Clerc

In late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the…

— Julian Assange

The mind is everything. If you don’t believe you can do something then you can’t. If you believe that your upbringing was…

— Kai Greene

What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home.…

— Rand Paul

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

— George Habash

I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives…

— Edwidge Danticat

The mountain glaciers in every region of the world are melting, many of them at an accelerated rate, threatening drinking supplies -…

— Al Gore

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime…

— Robert Winston

[WikiLeaks] are covering somebody that I never saw before, that [Hillary Clinton] knows terrorists are trying to infiltrate the refugee program. So…

— Donald Trump

[Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got…

— John McCain

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

— Philip Emeagwali

The largest weight is now on Germany's shoulders. Chancellor Merkel must continue to convince people of the EU's importance; she must spearhead…

— Anthony Glees

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

— Tom Petty

[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man,…

— John I. Jenkins

40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

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

— Mohsin Hamid

Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning…

— John Bolton

“But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the…

— Ruta Sepetys

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He…

— Eugene Jarecki

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

— David Ben-Gurion

I've never stopped being a refugee.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from…

— Rush Limbaugh

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

— Mohsin Hamid

I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white…

— Kola Boof

You look at Libya, and you go, "Jesus, why the hell did we do that?" That's beyond stupid. That's so irresponsible and…

— Michael T. Flynn