Refugee Quotes

• Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

  

  Michael Bond
  • Littles
  • Please
  • Bears

• Why are all these refugees rushing to the beauty and strength of Europe and to the United States and not rushing to their own capitals or the capitals of the Muslim world? We ought to be pushing back. We ought to be putting people back on these boats and putting them back into the places where they came from and telling these leaders in the Arab world, "You have a responsibility as well."

  

  Michael T. Flynn
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Leader

• 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
  • People
  • Men
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Enough
  • Dirty
  • Negative

• My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Family
  • Another
  • Status

• My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

  

  Nguyen Viet Thang
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Refugee

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