Air Quote by Stanley Ho

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I…

— Edward Snowden

There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to…

— John Rocha

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there…

— Paul Kagame

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

Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for…

— Tony Hillerman

When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in…

— Luol Deng

I was living in the border area with China, in Hyesan City. But after my father was imprisoned for informal trading, I escaped to…

— Park Yeon-mi

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

— Noma Dumezweni

“As one refugee, Amila, from Gradačac, commented 20 years later: “The most important part of being a refugee is being a good loser; it’s…

— John Farebrother

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were…

— Anh Do

My rebelliousness in Sierra Leone helped me survive there, and it stayed with me until I moved to the States and realized I was…

— Michaela DePrince

I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

— Angelina Jolie