Quotes About Refugees

Ä°f you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness? That is why people do not like us refugees. It is because they only know the tragic parts of our life, so they think we are tragic people.

Trumpers say the left is full of hate Because the left loves people of all colors and races Accepts refugees, the poor, the sick Welcomes people of all sexual orientations and religions But doesn't have a good feeling about those who reject them That makes us the haters

I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me.

As governor, my chief responsibility is to keep our state and people safe, which is why I have decided to oppose Arkansas being used as a relocation center for Syrian refugees.

ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.

The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done. And it's our job to stop them.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.

Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.

But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe's own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees from outside: the reverse, in fact.

I clearly remember the pain of partition; the whole of Delhi was seeing the struggle of refugees. We stayed near Roshanara Bagh, and the whole city appeared like a refugee camp.

There are millions of people, refugees, who have experienced the same conflicts and struggles I did. They have the same potential to defy the odds and achieve great things.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

You know, people only travel really with their seeds, and with their songs. In Bosnia they interviewed a lot of refugees... they'd left with nothing and they asked them what they had, and they had seeds in their pockets from their gardens and their songs. That was it. Once you're nourished in that most fundamental way, everything else follows.

The United States granted asylum to exactly eight of 24,559 Haitian refugees applying for political asylum during that period [1981]... only 20 percent of those polled [in the US] said immigration should be easier for Haitians, while 55 percent said it should be more difficult. After a decade during which less than 0.5 percent of Haitian applicants were granted asylum, one wonders how much more difficult it could be.

not desperate but lost, pathetic, fatalistic, like doomsday refugees, a glimpse of what the end of the world will look like:

But these former Red Guards and the refugees from the Cultural Revolution-surely they're out of school?' 'No, Chen said. 'There's a whole army of night-school students.

Many Americans were bewildered by having to accommodate themselves to the resettlement of Syrian, Somali, and Afghan refugees—their care and feeding—when many local communities were hard-up.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

We are all wanderers and travellers, refugees and pilgrims until we return once more to the stars.

On July 1 the United States and British Armies began their withdrawal to their allotted zones, followed by masses of refugees. Soviet Russia was established in the heart of Europe. This was a fateful milestone for mankind.

Teju Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.

It doesn't matter how many bombs we drop on the Middle East, how many children are mutilated and killed, the jihadis like the phoenix will rise from the ashes and the refugees and asylum seekers will keep coming. Once they have seen on their mobile phones the way we live, they will look out across their deserts and wastelands and make the journey west.

In 1942 he was saying—saying without crying, and God alone knows how—that the Jews would have to be withdrawn from Europe after the war and go to their new home.