Quotes About Refugees

I will not support any peace deal that will allow the return of even one Palestinian refugee to Israel.

The lack of livelihood opportunities in refugee camps pushes many people to embark on dangerous journeys in the quest for a better life.

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

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

I work with refugee families in Hackney in my local area in east London. Sport brings them together. A lot of the children come from different countries and speak different languages. It's difficult to find things they can all connect and interact with that are non-verbal. Sport is it.

Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here - to be safe and give their boys a chance to rebuild a life.

I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.

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.

As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest memories are of living in a home with their family. It's in my blood, I guess, to have a fear about encouraging fascism.

I've identified all my life with refugees.

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.

The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.

We're in a new reality, living in a time of climate change. We already have climate refugees around the globe and now have to talk about adaptation and mitigation.

In countless communities across America today, refugees are giving back to the country that has given them a new start.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.