Refugee Quotes

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

I've always been in danger, but I don't mind.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees until we can vet.

What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.

The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.

The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?

I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.

I've never stopped being a refugee.

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So there's not a whole lot of experience with refugees here.

We see everything, we see what's going on in Syria, we see what's going on with the refugees. What can you do about it? And we have to do something.