Quotes About Resettlement

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

Many people aren't happy with the refugees coming to their country. Maybe we came illegally, but every other door was shut in our faces. What do they expect us to do? Isn't it enough our government destroyed us and we lost everything? We would prefer to stay in our country. If you don't want refugees, help us make peace in Syria.

So we left and came to Lebanon and my husband and daughter stayed in Syria.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.

In 529, as part of an imperial ban against pagan education,17 the Academy was shut down, and while the members of its faculty were offered pensions and resettlement, seven of them—Damascius, the Academy's head; Simplicius; Eulamius; Priscian; Hermeias; Diogenes; and Isidore—were recruited by Khusro to re-create the Academy at the Sassanid capital city of Ctesiphon, there to translate the works of Plato and his successors into Persian.

At the height of the exodus, as many as eight million Afghans were living abroad as refugees. Today, more than two million Afghan refugees remain in Pakistan.

We hardly notice how ubiquitous our stuff is until we have to move it to a new house.

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.

Ngata Sir Apirana Turupa (1874–1950), New Zealand Maori leader and politician. As Minister for Native Affairs he devoted much time to Maori resettlement, seeking to preserve the characteristic elements of Maori life and culture.

Resettlement agents are special people," Sanja says, "and organizations that do this type of work should be celebrated more than they are.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

the refugees' safety was guaranteed, though most of them regarded Surinam as no more than a way station to somewhere else and left as soon as they could.

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

I want to send a very strong signal to people who do think about making this journey - we will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France that they can get to Britain and just get to stay.

For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region. Out of the goodness of our hearts, we offer financial assistance to hosting countries in the region, and we support recent agreements of the G-20 nations that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible. This is the safe, responsible and humanitarian approach.

some seven hundred thousand Arabs found themselves homeless and stateless, living as refugees in the neighboring Arab countries.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Instead of helping people here, providing shelters here, bringing more generator power to the places that need them, getting the electric system up and running, they're encouraging people to leave instead.

Thomas Jefferson, who advocated expulsion of blacks from the United States in order to save the nation; and Kentuckian Henry Clay, who had established the American Colonization Society, which had moved thousands of free blacks into what is now Liberia—Lincoln soon laid out his own resettlement plans. He had selected Chiriquí,

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.