Refugee Quotes - Page 8

• We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Islamic, School, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Islamic, Issues, Battle

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Childhood, Migration, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, Flow, Inevitable

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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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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• Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

  A. A. Gill

  Dirty, Bankers, Negative

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• What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.

  Yasmine Elmasri

  People, Humanity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that should be enough but it isn't. We must work hard to become whole again, to fill our soul with love and inspiration, to live the life that was intended for us before it was disrupted by war and horrors, and help rebuild a world that is better than the one we had just left.

  Loung Ung

  War, Live Life, Inspiration

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• I think all of Europe has been too soft on the refugee crisis.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Thinking, Crisis

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Habit, Quaint

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Greed, Meals

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Jobs, Issues

  "A Minute With: Angelina Jolie, femme fatale and busy Mom". Interview with John Irish, www.reuters.com. December 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, People, Privilege

  "A Mighty Heart - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Children, Memories, Born

  Phyllis Bottome (1954). “The Secret Stair”

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• the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

  Dervla Murphy

  Home, Loss, Occupation

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• The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees

  Joseph J. Romm

  War, Carbon Cycle, Environmental

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• A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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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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• If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we're saying they're a political refugee, but why isn't a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They're escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don't call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.

  Ian Svenonius

  Escaping, People, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

  Joseph Sobran

  Dream, Lying, Giving

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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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• Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

  David Letterman

  Plot, Planets, Democrat

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• The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Rights, Israel, Borders

  "'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'". www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2006.

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