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My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network. -- Mamie Gummer
My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network. -- Mamie Gummer
I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget. -- Ann Curry
Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver. -- Yoweri Museveni
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced. -- Antonio Guterres
There are so many orgizations that do amazing work. I represent not only my own foundation, but the UN Refugee Agency, which has been around since 1951, and has helped 30 million refugees around the world. -- Khaled Hosseini
Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion. -- Elie Wiesel
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice? -- Ismail Haniyeh
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. -- Michael Franti
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home. -- Jonas Mekas
Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues. -- Cynthia Basinet
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees, -- Elie Wiesel
I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present. -- Kofi Annan
Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words. -- Angelina Jolie
A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself. -- Poul Hartling
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee -- Gyorgy Ligeti
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety. -- Angelina Jolie
Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity -- Julien Clerc
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity. -- George Monbiot
While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives. -- Antonio Guterres
As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America. -- Andrew Lam
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. -- Angelina Jolie
Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism. -- Ronald Reagan
Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers. -- Robin Morgan
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more -- Pope Francis
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees. -- Nelson Mandela
I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on. -- Paul Bettany
We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment. -- Pope Francis
We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems. -- Poul Hartling
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children. -- Hillary Clinton
What my bill would do would be only for refugees going forward. So I haven't taken a position on sending anyone home. But I have taken the position that we have a lot of problems here in our country. And that one of the things that we do - charity is about giving your own money. Charity isn't giving someone else's money. -- Rand Paul
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. -- Philip Emeagwali
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. -- Ariel Dorfman
I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust. -- Martti Ahtisaari
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. -- Tony Abbott
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. -- Connie Sellecca
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase. -- Michael Bond
I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream. -- Antje Traue
I don't 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.
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time. -- Isabel Allende
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story. -- Eugene Jarecki
You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
If I'm doing a story on how a single mother copes in a refugee camp, I'll go to her tent; I'll follow her when she's working, see what her daily life is like, and try to pack that into one composition, with nice light, in one frame. -- Lynsey Addario
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family. -- Isabel Allende
I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. -- Ismail Haniyeh
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative. -- Geraldine Brooks
It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected. -- Kapil Sharma
Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau. -- Stanley Ho
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils. -- Deborah Ellis
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England. -- M.I.A.
I've never stopped being a refugee. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee -- Leonard Cohen
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. -- Anne Carson
We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here. -- Phyllis Bennis
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that. -- Javier Bardem
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that." -- Javier Bardem
No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! -- George Habash
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. -- Madeleine Albright
There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee. -- Audie Cornish
I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States. -- Michael Leiter
You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee. -- Tom Petty
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. -- Chris Cleave
I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character. -- Paul Kagame
BjÃ¶rk's wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet. -- Jay Carr
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
I'm a partisan, too. I'm in favor of AUTHENTICITY." US State Department veteran and U.N. refugee official Wendy Chamberlain -- Ron Suskind
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge. -- Elie Wiesel
Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk. -- Justin Trudeau
There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it. -- Andre Vltchek
We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them. -- Richard Engel
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories! -- Phyllis Bottome
My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania. -- Masiela Lusha
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. -- Jack Steinberger
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe! -- Lawrence Durrell
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.
The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor OrbÃ¡n that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem. -- Martin Schulz
For the price of resettling, one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region. Which I agree with 100 percent. -- Donald Trump
Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
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
I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf. -- Connie Chung
Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One -- Catherine Stine
A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe. -- Adam Hochschild
I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came from my earliest experiences as a young refugee. -- Masiela Lusha
The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in. -- Romano L. Mazzoli
Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means? -- Scott Simon
In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community. -- Marco Rubio
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are. -- Adam Hochschild
Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money. -- Martin Schulz
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart. -- Uma Krishnaswami
The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin. -- Martin Schulz
I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees. -- Khaled Hosseini
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
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. -- Walter Russell Mead
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon." -- Walter Russell Mead
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
You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs. -- Bill Gates
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
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street. -- Patch Adams
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army. -- James Meade
I would like the refugee crisis to become a new beginning in the Turkish-European relationship. But it would be very problematic if, during this process, human rights were forgotten. Democracy needs to be the priority. -- Elif Safak

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