Refugee Quotes - Page 9

• Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

  Jay Carr

  Dog, Swans, Ballet

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• The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

  Konrad Adenauer

  War, World, February

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• I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, People, World

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• For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Unique, Issues, Important

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May, 2009.

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• While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

  Doc Brown

  Teenager, Rap, Kids

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

  Tony Abbott

  Numbers, Australia, Asylum Seekers

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.

  Martin Schulz

  Orbs, Problem, Prime

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so.

  Martin Schulz

  Grateful, Dedication, Unending

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Men, Order

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I don't even blame pseudo-refugees for trying to have a better life in Holland. I blame our government for allowing it to happen; for not saying 'enough is enough you are not a refugee', we have to defend our own country and close our borders.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Government, Trying

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• When you talk about humanitarian, it doesn't only mean to offer the people the help, the food, their necessary needs for their life. The first thing, if you ask the Syrian refugees, for example, the first thing they want is to go back to their country.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.

  John Bolton

  Running, Korea, Europe

  Source: humanevents.com

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• We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals and illegal immigration. Stop the massive inflow of refugees.

  Donald Trump

  Immigration, Illegal, Trade

  Source: time.com

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• Crooked Hillary [Clinton] also wants a 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees to pour into our country .

  Donald Trump

  Country, Want, Syrian Refugees

  Source: time.com

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• The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.

  Kofi Annan

  War, People, Mind

  Source: www.accaglobal.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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• [Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Migrants, Borders

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Cities, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me''Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'

  Kola Boof

  Blessed, Taken, White

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• Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.

  Kola Boof

  Mean, White, Childhood

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• While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

  Max Blumenthal

  Needs, Ongoing, Lectures

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Syrian refugees are Trojan horses.

  Donald Trump

  Horse, Syrian Refugees, Trojans

  Sixth Republican top-tier debate, www.cbsnews.com. January 15, 2016.

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• 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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