To be called a refugee is the opposite of an insult; it is a badge of strength, courage, and victory.
— Tennessee Office for Refugees
— Tennessee Office for Refugees
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No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.
— Warsan Shire
No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.
— Warsan Shire
3) Refugees
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves.
— Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves.
— Anne Frank
4) Refugees
Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism.
— António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
Refugees are not terrorists. They are often the first victims of terrorism.
— António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres
5) Refugees
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
— Albert Einstein
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
— Albert Einstein
6) Refugees
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
— Emma Lazarus
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
— Emma Lazarus
7) Refugees
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
8) Refugees
It affects and involves us all, and what it needs is understanding, compassion and political will to come together and find real answers for the refugee plight. This has become a defining challenge of our times.
— Filippo Grandi
It affects and involves us all, and what it needs is understanding, compassion and political will to come together and find real answers for the refugee plight. This has become a defining challenge of our times.
— Filippo Grandi
No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
— Warsan Shire
— Warsan Shire
Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as us—except that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.
— Khaled Hosseini
— Khaled Hosseini
Refugees
11) We have a legal and moral obligation to protect people fleeing bombs, bullets and tyrants, and throughout history those people have enriched our society.
—Juliet Stevenson
11) We have a legal and moral obligation to protect people fleeing bombs, bullets and tyrants, and throughout history those people have enriched our society.
—Juliet Stevenson
12) Refugees
It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks
— Dina Nayeri
It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks
— Dina Nayeri
