1.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
Gyorgy Ligeti
2.
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
Chris Cleave
3.
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
Elie Wiesel
4.
Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.
Cynthia Basinet
5.
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
Edith Cavell
6.
Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
Leonard Cohen
7.
I've always been in danger, but I don't mind.
Sima Samar
8.
I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.
Michael T. Flynn
9.
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
Chris Cleave
10.
The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.
Paul Virilio
11.
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
Nina Fedoroff
12.
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
13.
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Ariel Dorfman
14.
Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.
Michael T. Flynn
15.
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.
Randall Price
16.
My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
Mamie Gummer
17.
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?
Scott Simon
18.
I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have.
Michael Leiter
20.
We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.
Michael Mullen
22.
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.
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
23.
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.
Michal Rovner
24.
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.
Ryan Zinke
25.
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.
Yasmine Elmasri
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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.
Kareem Mortimer