Quotes About Refugees

Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

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

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

I was the child of refugees.

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.

The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.

The contributions of refugees to the diverse mosaic of our nation are undeniable.

It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate 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.

We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way to do that is to have more economic immigrants, less refugees a little bit and less reunufication of families.