Refugee Quotes - Page 13

• I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Memories, Thinking, Degrees

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

  Anne Carson

  Population, Language, Hungry

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic. They're much more oriented towards the past and towards the country of origin. That can make the process of becoming a part of the new country much more fraught for them.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Country, Past, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they're going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We're all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don't want to be reminded of that.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Country, Thinking, Demand

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not choose where they're going to go or why they're fleeing, and they are unwanted populations. They bring with them the stigma of disaster.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Country, World, Fleeing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [WikiLeaks] are covering somebody that I never saw before, that [Hillary Clinton] knows terrorists are trying to infiltrate the refugee program. So you have terrorists coming in, she knows they're coming in, and yet she wants to increase it.

  Donald Trump

  Trying, Saws, Covering

  Source: time.com

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• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

  Erica Jong

  Husband, Names, Wife

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 16, 2012

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• Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

  Michael Bond

  Labels, Looks, Littles

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• While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

  David Duke

  Eye, Ku Klux Klan, Volunteer

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• Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

  Sadako Ogata

  Determination, War, Mean

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• My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Identity, Firsts, Remember

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U.S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Children, Self

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

  Moshe Arens

  Running, Islamic, Israel

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands. There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now. I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Thinking, Government, Order

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• We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.

  Dan O'Neill

  Brother, Caring, Helping Others

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Summer, Flower, Air

  "A Song for Summer".

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• I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

  Michael J. Fox

  Issues, Immigration, Canada

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Sea, Cyprus

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Reason, Flood

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in discussions about bringing over Muslim refugees into this country, with a president who's now mocking, you know, the talk radio people, mocking the audience on talk video, mocking the sites like Breitbart, that are bringing up these issues.

  Stephen K. Bannon

  Country, War, Frustration

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.

  Preston Manning

  Real, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees until we can vet.

  Ryan Zinke

  Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.

  John F. Kerry

  Character, Europe, Way

  Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe, 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• I am also integration minister and speak with many refugees. When I ask if they came with the goal of living in Greece or Poland, most of them answer "no."

  Sebastian Kurz

  Goal, Speak, Integration

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Saudis

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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