Refugee Quotes · Page 6

We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals and illegal immigration. Stop the massive inflow of refugees.

— Donald Trump

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

— Khaled Hosseini

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

— Paul Kagame

We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.

— Phyllis Bennis

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

— Elie Wiesel

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

— Michael Mullen

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

— Nguyen Viet Thang

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no…

— Phyllis Bottome

In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern…

— Robert Fisk

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

— Eugene Jarecki

Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

— Angelina Jolie

“More than ninety percent of the district’s population is dead. The remaining eight hundred or so are refugees in District 13 —…

— Suzanne Collins

We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and…

— Fatos Nano

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new…

— Donald Trump

I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at…

— Alek Wek

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

— Kola Boof

Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent.…

— Matteo Salvini

When asylum seekers began arriving at the southern border in 2018, New Mexico's communities answered the call to provide humanitarian care. Churches,…

— Ben Ray Lujan

We are not perfect. But we have doubtlessly fulfilled our obligations to the EU to a greater degree than the EU has…

— Paolo Gentiloni

US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe…

— Michael Hudson

I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western…

— Halima Aden

Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…

— Gerald Durrell

[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that…

— Geert Wilders

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

There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest.…

— Noam Chomsky

“And so you carried life for the world, Mary, as you fled, to protect that very life from threats of death. Joining…

— Edwina Gateley

“You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits…

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Pope Francis

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

— Nguyen Viet Thang

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on…

— Carlos Bulosan

“As one refugee, Amila, from Gradačac, commented 20 years later: “The most important part of being a refugee is being a good…

— John Farebrother

Waiting is a huge part of being a refugee. You're waiting at borders to get across. You're waiting for transportation. The waiting…

— Alan Gratz

66 percent of Americans agree in a temporary ban of refugees entering the United States!

— Sean Hannity

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

— Michael Leiter

I believe that the majority of people in Europe want to demonstrate solidarity with the refugees.

— Martin Schulz

I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.

— Milana Vayntrub

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

“A smile is a charity like a million bucks to the refugee.”

— Isam Bachiri

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

— Malcolm Fraser

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

— Michael Leiter