Refugee Quotes · Page 5

As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.

— Frank Lowy

Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

— Donald Trump

I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees…

— Ryan Zinke

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

— Mamie Gummer

“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.”

— Ruta Sepetys

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

— Paul Virilio

I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

— Kofi Annan

My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

— Geert Wilders

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

I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of…

— M.I.A

“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or…

— Margaret Atwood

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

— Jay Carr

“I assume you're a refugee from the dance inside." "I escaped the enemy, captain," I said. I could see the side of…

— Judy Blundell

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was…

— Isabel Allende

“I watched the refugee kids swim. They are easy to spot. They are the ones whose mothers stand on the shore watching…

— Bill Carter

You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be…

— Khaled Hosseini

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those…

— Sam Rasoul

We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular…

— Pope Francis

Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably…

— Peter Hessler

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

— Mike Pence

A refugee in the traditional vision is someone who flees from country to another because of persecution or conflict. But what we're…

— Antonio Guterres

Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they…

— Judith Butler

While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and…

— David Duke

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization.…

— Jonas Mekas

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go…

— Anne Lamott

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

— Mohsin Hamid

Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the…

— Christopher J. H. Wright

There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some…

— Mandy Patinkin

“The refugee card was and continues to be an insult to remind us of the little that refugees get in comparison with…

— Refaat Alareer

Cubans who arrive and can prove that they are refugees who are truly fleeing political persecution will continue to qualify as refugees.…

— Marco Rubio

We have to put America's security first. The American people - we on this stage need to open our ears. We need…

— Chris Christie

“And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in…

— Eric Weiner

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

— Elliott Carter

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

— Thomas de Maiziere

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

— Sarah Hanson-Young

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

— Angelina Jolie

My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.

— Amala Akkineni

I was working on refugee issues in 1993, as the refugee coordinator for the Horn of Africa.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

“The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.”

— Richard Flanagan

Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

— Ted Lieu