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Quotes About Camps

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
that FDR allowed the internment camps, a black spot on our nation's history.
~ Bob Mayer
those wretched refugees still mired in the camps.
~ Tamim Ansary
Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts.
~ Henry Adams
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've been in the songwriting circuit as well. I've been in a couple writing camps where there are seven top writers or whatever, and they're writing songs for a young girl or a young guy that are coming up, and they're kind of nuts.
~ Lzzy Hale
I always think if I'd had kids that I'd manage them like I do my dog Margaret: camps, playdates, naps, and lots of snacks. They'd all be fat.
~ Carole Radziwill
I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.
~ Bryce Courtenay
You're scaring the dog," Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.
~ Garth Stein
True, fascism was not to be tolerated by decent people. But neither was racism or colonialism or slave labor camps—one or another of which was a characteristic of all of the Allied powers.
~ Howard Zinn
In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
~ Richard Engel
23 Two centuries later, the task appears less simple and such expressions as "brain-washing" and "reeducation" camps have chilling overtones in the light of history, though that has not stopped indoctrination efforts in American schools and colleges, led by those who still have the vision of the anointed today.
~ Thomas Sowell
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
~ Jan Egeland
I am immensely blessed to be in America. This country has given me so much since I came here from Turkey as a teenager, and I feel obliged to give back to the community. I spent the summer crisscrossing the nation, holding 50 basketball camps for kids in 30 states.
~ Enes Kanter
In Turkey, there are no 'refugee camps.' There are Turkish 'temporary protection shelters.' The Kurdis had no papers, no UNHCR refugee designations, and no passports, and therefore did not qualify for exit visas.
~ Terry Glavin
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
~ Steve Forbes
America, fortunately or unfortunately, is very polarized right now. People fall into their different camps. And people are, are concerned. And they, they want to see change.
~ Robby Mook
Society had become divided into two ideologically hostile camps, and each side viewed the other with suspicion.
~ Thucydides
A self-absorbed president, catering to the "worst caprices" of his supporters, could easily distract their attention from plodding matters of governance, and whip their enthusiasms into a frenzy, especially if he divided his supporters and his critics into "hostile camps.
~ Ted Widmer
One of the things I like most about Roufusport is, really, the culture. A lot of times, you're training in fight camps and running and hitting mitts and sparring. Those things get old kind of quick. I like the fact that they allow fun into the room.
~ Tyron Woodley
When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.
~ Alexandra Bracken
it was incredible that this thing should be happening to him. It was what he had read of and had found some difficulty in crediting. It was what they were supposed to do to Jews in concentration camps. It could not be true.
~ Nevil Shute