My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine. — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans. — Lawrence O'Donnell 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 father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee. — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do. — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.” — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“I have lived my life defined as a refugee in Nepal and India, a resident alien and immigrant in the United States.… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
I am not a refugee. I sought refuge for many years, but the word 'refugee' does not define me. It just limits… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness isn’t about paperwork. It’s about presence. It is the way we walk in the world, never to return again. To do… — Casey Tygrett Copy Share Image
From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted. — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about… — James Comey Copy Share Image
We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has… — Maria Franziska von Trapp 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
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were… — Eva Ibbotson 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
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 Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone. — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more. — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network. — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee. — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
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