Displaced Quotes

76 quotes by 69 authors

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues. — Cynthia Basinet
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage… — Antonio Guterres
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and… — Don Henley
Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and… — Louise Dickinson Rich
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing… — Christopher Flavin
We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good. — Anna Politkovskaya
The very notion that millions of workers displaced by the re-engineering and automation of the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors can be retrained to be… — Jeremy Rifkin
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change… — Nan Goldin
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has… — Groucho Marx
I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees and of those… — Pope Francis
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by… — Pope Francis
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced… — Richard Rohr
Letâ€™s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other peopleâ€™s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she… — Sara Ahmed
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such… — Timothy Keller
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on… — Jonas Mekas
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory… — Caroline Glick
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified… — Edith Wharton
The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced… — Raymond T. Odierno

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