Quotes About Displacement

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the waterright to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

women and children – the 'useless mouths', Churchill chillingly called them – had been abruptly and inefficiently shipped out at the start of hostilities so that the colony could become a garrison.

The Oxford Plaza Apartments building, located at 924 North 25th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was torn down. All the former residents had to find new homes.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

La luz era más intensa, y ella oía cosas que normalmente no oía. Un lamento de todo lo que estaba fuera de su sitio. Un aullido de todo lo que había dejado de ser auténtico...

We are all aliens to ourselves.

but such is the price you pay for leaving home, and as long as you continue to travel, the nowhere that lies between the here of home and the there of somewhere else will continue to be one of the places where you live.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.

La asociación de los expulsados de un país. Habría que fundar sin duda la asociación de los expulsados del mundo.

Today over half the world's refugees are in 'protracted refugee situations' and for them the average length of stay [in camps] is over two decades.

It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.

The most common transferrential dynamic that I witness occurs when leftover hurt about a parent gets displaced onto someone we perceive as hurting us in the present. When this occurs, we respond to them with a magnified anger or anguish that is

Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.

by expelling them

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.