Quotes About Displacement

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by an invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

Jeigu neturi žem?s, tai tu esi niekur.

i'm a displaced person on my way home, in search for my home, retracing bits of past, looking for some recognisable traces of my past.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Between 1933 and 1938, a great exodus of German Jews began, far greater in its extent than that of the Spanish Jews after 1492 or that of the Huguenots after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. More than 450,000 Jews left central Europe as it came under Nazi rule.37 The whole of German-Jewish culture was exiled

This is no longer our home

my therapist constantly tried to convince me that the networking was a displacement activity to help me avoid dealing with my own emotional issues.

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Most fled when their villages and towns came under Jewish attack or out of fear of future attack. They wished to move out of harm's way.

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

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.

I've identified all my life with refugees.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

I was the child of refugees.

When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in the world that my father was contacting, the only one that took us in was England.

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or another. They only care about it insofar as they can use it to manipulate a German sense of guilt.

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.