Age Quote by Ariel Dorfman

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We…

— Isabel Allende

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social…

— Mary McCarthy

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

— Judith Butler

I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and…

— Luc Sante

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

— Chris Cleave

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 the rest…

— Herbert Adams Gibbons

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning…

— Uma Krishnaswami

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

— Ariel Dorfman

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to…

— Ariel Dorfman

Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative…

— Hisham Matar

We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of…

— Judith Butler

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

— Phyllis Bennis

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans…

— Condoleezza Rice

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.…

— Ed Koch

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the…

— Michael Hudson