Top 121 Refugees Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Refugees Quotes from famous people such as Peter Landesman, Katharine Viner, Lee Hyeon-seo, Rashida Tlaib, Pete Hoekstra, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passpo

Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.
Peter Landesman
For some time, destitution has been a harsh reality for asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees who are unable to access mainstream accommodation and support. Delays in the asylum and appeals process can leave them in limbo for years without money, shelter, and advice.
Katharine Viner
In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to be like as a North Korean refugee. But I soon learned it’s not only extremely difficult, it’s also very dangerous, since North Korean refugees are considered in China as illegal migrants.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.
Rashida Tlaib
Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.
Pete Hoekstra
My parents were engineers. In the 1970s, they came to the United States as refugees from Uganda. Seeing everything this country did for my family inspired me to want to give back through public service.
Reshma Saujani
As ISIS begins to gain momentum beyond where they already are, it really does create – but you see the surge of refugees and immigrants into Europe, and this is a major problem for the Europeans… But the United States is going to have to take the lead.
William H. McRaven
Free migration within Europe means that countries that have done a better job at reducing unemployment will predictably end up with more than their fair share of refugees. Workers in these countries bear the cost in depressed wages and higher unemployment, while employers benefit from cheaper labor.
Joseph Stiglitz
A lot of the Democratic base believes that it’s the right the to do to bring as many of these refugees in as possible for – there are many members of the Democratic Party who may think that tens of thousands are not enough, and we’re not doing our part until we bring in even more.
Lee Zeldin
Under Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
Richard Flanagan
I’ve identified all my life with refugees.
Vanessa Redgrave
If they wanted to end the violence and war between them and if they wanted Jews and Palestinians to live in peace, Jews and Palestinians, then they should consider this solution: one democratic state, free from weapons of mass destruction, and with the return of the Palestinian refugees.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.
Isaac Herzog
I just want to encourage you all… to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I’m hearing.
Jeff Duncan
Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless – Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of release – made me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me.
Sabaa Tahir
I play for the America that embraces refugees from war-torn nations, for the America that welcomes all people who want the chance to experience the American Dream, for the America that appreciates the contributions from all the people it shelters.
Becky Sauerbrunn
Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won’t fix the real issue, which is ‘homegrown’ terrorism.
Peter Bergen
In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.
Sebastian Kurz
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature – that lots of people ever came across – were in ‘The Iliad’: the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.
Vanessa Redgrave
The contributions of refugees to the diverse mosaic of our nation are undeniable.
Antony Blinken
When refugees are at a distance it’s easy to be compassionate.
Nish Kumar
The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity. The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
Danny Danon
I just want to encourage you all… to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I’m hearing.
Jeff Duncan
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Loren Eiseley
I grew up around Vietnamese refugees, around people who don’t speak English as a first language.
Hong Chau
Syria’s neighboring countries cannot and should not carry the cost of caring for refugees on their own. The international community must share the burden with them by providing economic aid, investing in development in those countries, and opening their own borders to desperate Syrian families looking for protection.
Khaled Hosseini
This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees.
Lauren Jauregui
We don’t need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.
Virgil Goode
Without networks like the Black Immigration Network, organizations like Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees would not get the support and resources and amplification that their voices that they need and deserve.
Opal Tometi
I thanked President Obama for the United States’ work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
Malala Yousafzai
I was the child of refugees.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
I want to bring my children up in a world where we're f

I want to bring my children up in a world where we’re free to travel and work wherever we want, and in a society that takes care of immigrants and refugees.
Daisy Lowe
We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn’t mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really – should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.
Najib Mikati
Trump’s executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds – with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger – his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.
Arianna Huffington
I don’t want to be the only one speaking up for the refugees. I get all these comments from people saying, ‘Thanks so much for your courage,’ and, ‘You’re the only one who’s spoken out.’ But I don’t want to be the only one speaking up.
Til Schweiger
President Obama’s own administration has publicly admitted that under the current framework, Syrian refugees cannot be vetted in a way that meets the rigorous security standards we rightfully expect.
Scott DesJarlais
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
Katharine Viner
We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a party to this, are criminalizing them and sending them back, inhumanely.
Jill Stein
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.
Hong Chau
In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.
Sebastian Kurz
But a rejection of freedom of movement within Europe’s own boundaries does not strengthen the case for accepting more migrants and refugees from outside: the reverse, in fact.
Owen Jones
While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.
Deborah Ellis
When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it’s not something you want to remember or think about.
Luka Modric
YouTube has moved culture forward in attitudes – on refugees, on LGBT issues – especially trans issues. There was untapped demand there; a lot of our users would still be under-served without us. We’re a platform that enables everyone to have a voice.
Susan Wojcicki
Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe do not go through anything like the rigorous process experienced by those who are coming to the States, and the volume of Syrians fleeing to Europe is orders of magnitude larger than it is to the United States.
Peter Bergen
I get that people are worried about their mortgages and bills that have to be paid. They don’t have time to worry about the Syrian refugees, and I get that. The thing about it is, when it gets worse and worse and worse and down the line, it’s no longer restricted to these places.
Liam Cunningham
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama
When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni