Refugee Quotes · Page 5

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

— Tony Abbott

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees,

— Elie Wiesel

“Anyone who thinks it’s easy to get to the States as a refugee has no idea.”

— Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

— David Ben-Gurion

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

— Justin Trudeau

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

— Donald Trump

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

— David Letterman

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

“Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker…

— Victoria Armour-Hileman

The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize…

— Ismail Haniyeh

Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You…

— Rachel Maddow

Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as…

— Marco Rubio

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 wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced…

— Sadako Ogata

Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is…

— Martin Schulz

I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in…

— Rebecca Pidgeon

There's the reason that I think that red states don't trust the government. They see it as an instrument of their own…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and…

— Herbert Adams Gibbons

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge…

— John le Carre

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise…

— Al Gore

We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I…

— Benjamin Carson

We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well…

— Alice Schwarzer

The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their…

— Kenneth Bacon

It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the…

— Angelina Jolie

My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really…

— Decca Aitkenhead

In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they…

— Yasmine Elmasri

“A huge maze of tents and mud huts and homes built from plastic and aluminum siding in a labyrinth of narrow passageways…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan…

— Joel Houston

“The boy went back to his family there, in the distance, in a distance he did not find there in the distance.…

— Mahmoud Darwish

As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you…

— Amira Hass

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

— Edith Cavell

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

— Javier Bardem

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

— George Habash

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.

— Poul Hartling

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

— Tom Petty

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

— David Ben-Gurion

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

— Alek Wek

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

— Kareena Kapoor Khan