Top 651 Vietnamese Refugees Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.
Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.
Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.
American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya.
Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.
Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so.
It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.
It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.
I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.
Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.
We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.
Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity
Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.
Seeing the B-52s dropped from planes, watching the burning of civilians with Agent Orange, reading about the incarceration of Vietnamese militants in cages only big enough for tigers made me furious.
I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness.
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon.
Refugees, imperialism, all the things that we are facing right now. What are we going to do with that? What's the moral imperative? Where do we sit with all that, as a worldwide community?
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.
Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.
Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.
I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.
66 percent of Americans agree in a temporary ban of refugees entering the United States!
It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.
And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.
The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.
It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.
Yeah, we were refugees coming to the U.K. and I definitely now view myself as a Rwandan Scotsman.
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.
There's two approved methods for getting a pedicure for a guy. Number one, you use your own grinder or... You have an eighteen year-old Vietnamese girl rub your feet and call you Joe and that's it!
My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.
I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.
