Attention Quote by Rosalynn Carter

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came…

— Tammy Duckworth

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

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

— Noma Dumezweni

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery…

— David Batstone

I was the child of refugees.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

— Rithy Panh

My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home…

— Sam Brownback

My dad had just come back from Vietnam, and I think he had PTSD that he never treated, in that sort of macho-denial way.…

— Brendan Hunt

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was…

— Novak Djokovic

The separation from my mother at an early age was traumatic.

— Goldie

While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try…

— Deborah Ellis