Refugee Quotes

145 Refugee quotes by 112 unique authors

When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the… — Antonio Guterres
At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared… — Jim Wallis
We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and… — Eugene Jarecki
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind… — Eugene Jarecki
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival.… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian… — Kapil Sharma
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time. — Isabel Allende
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in… — Isabel Allende
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining… — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by… — Nancy Gibbs
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them. — Richard Engel
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the… — Spalding Gray
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were… — Deborah Ellis
That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had… — Les Aspin
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to… — James Meade
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. — Connie Sellecca
Rise against : prayer for the refugee — Natalya Johnson
The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee. — Unknown Author
I`m a starving third world mother. A refugee without a home. I`m a house wife hooked on Valium. I`m a Pensioner alone. — Unknown Author
The mental disturbances originated in the early months of 1959, at a time when Alicia happened to be pregnant. And as a consequence I resigned… — John Nash

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