Refugee Quotes

145 quotes by 115 authors

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that. — Javier Bardem
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. — Tony Abbott
Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. — Warren Christopher
In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,… — Noam Chomsky
Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened… — Jimmy Carter
Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from… — William J. Clinton
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. But… — Ed Koch
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would… — Ed Koch
So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us… — Alan K. Simpson
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its… — Pearl S. Buck
Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of… — Sadako Ogata
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an… — Eva Ibbotson
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will… — Gerald Durrell
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has… — Noam Chomsky
[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from… — Yitzhak Rabin
The mind is everything. If you donâ€™t believe you can do something then you canâ€™t. If you believe that your upbringing was substandard and therefore… — Kai Greene
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! — George Habash
If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and… — Moshe Dayan
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich… — Poul Hartling

Who Wrote These Refugee Quotes

115 authors contributed a total of 145 Refugee Quotes, led by these top contributors: