Dangerous Quote by Lee Hyeon-seo

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“He considered China’s interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a…

— Donald Keene

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since…

— Jim Yong Kim

Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of…

— Adam Hochschild

We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or…

— Cameron Sinclair

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why…

— Yanis Varoufakis

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

Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary…

— Antonio Guterres

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Khaled Hosseini

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind…

— Scott Simon

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

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