Refugee Quotes - Page 6

• After Donald Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal, candidate Jeb Bush reacted by calling Mr. Trump unhinged. However, that would be the same Jeb Bush who says we should only allow refugees into this country who are Christians.

  Rachel Maddow

  Christian, Country, Would Be

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• Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria.

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Age, May

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• We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Mean, Isis

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, President, Vets

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism, and what my legislation would do is suspend all refugees for three years from countries where ISIS or Al Qaida control substantial territory.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Believe, Islamic

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Safety concerns are reasonable. Banning refugees is certainly not.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Safety, Concern, Reasonable

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan and Iraq are being overwhelmed by those fleeing the conflict in Syria, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many are severely tortured - abused women and their traumatized children whose husbands, fathers, and brothers have been killed or permanently disabled.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Brother, Children, Husband

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• How many migrants, how many immigrants, how many migrants and refugees fleeing war-torn areas in the Middle East are permitted into the Vatican? I'm not kidding. I think I saw a story where they're going to take ... two. It's obviously symbolic. They will take two at the Vatican, thereby setting an example and showing how it's done.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Thinking, Two

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.

  Edward Said

  School, Florida, Speak English

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive for them to stay there and not to place their fates in the hands of smugglers.

  Martin Schulz

  Fate, Hands, Turkeys

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The screening in the United States is the toughest screening of any country in the world in terms of refugees, that accepts refugees. And of course there are those that don`t accept any, or ever have, no matter what kind they are.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Country, United States, World

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Isis, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.

  John Gimlette

  Glasses, Years, Organization

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  M.I.A.

  War, Voice, Support

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• We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Fashion, Mean, Holocaust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, America, Europe

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• On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Safety, Tree, Tanks

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2000). “Interpreter of Maladies”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees and of those who have been forcibly displaced. A hope that is expressed in expectations for the future, in the desire for friendship, in the wish to participate in the host society also through learning the language, access to employment and the education of children. I admire the courage of those who hope to be able gradually to resume a normal life, waiting for joy and love to return to brighten their existence. We can and must all nourish this hope!

  Pope Francis

  Children, Eye, Heart

  Pope Francis' address to participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 24, 2013.

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• My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Mean, People, Netherlands

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• Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Loss, Turkeys, Race

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• Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, People, Different

  "Syria's al-Assad speaks: Why he blames U.S. for truce's demise, and says war will 'drag on'". Interview, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 22, 2016.

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• We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Age, Exile, Refugee Camps

  "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.

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• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Rights, Suffering, Different

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Believe, Want

  Song: Refugee

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• We also can't be naïve when it comes to the refugees. Men who commit violence should of course be deported to their countries of origin. We already have enough problems here and we don't need to import anymore.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Country, Men, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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