Top 323 Refugee Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee.
I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.
We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.
From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.
We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.
Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.
We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
I've never been in a place where I've walked in the street and actually feel home, where I don't feel like a refugee.
My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
The journey has been long, fleeing a war, living in a refugee camp, coming to Canada is what we were dreaming as a family to get here. Now that we're here I'm excited that I'm a Canadian citizen.
The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program.
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.
I remember when I was a kid, as a refugee in Egypt, every day, there was always a hope that we'd get to leave tomorrow and we'd get to go somewhere.
If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.
There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.
My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.
I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.
While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must.
Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?
I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,' that concerns me.
Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.
I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in.
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.
Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
I can reveal today that the U.S. government has information to indicate that individuals tied to terrorist groups in Syria have already attempted to gain access to our country through the U.S. refugee program.
Terrorism and the refugee crisis have changed the political mood in the West and brought the extreme right to prominence there.
Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.
It is unacceptable for a woman to be rescued from captivity from ISIS to come and not have a place to live, to be put in refugee camps.
The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.
A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.
I will not support any peace deal that will allow the return of even one Palestinian refugee to Israel.
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.
Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.
Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.
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 dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
