Quotes About Refugee Crisis

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

Joy-Ann Reid

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One

Kim Stanley Robinson

#8. There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.

Andre Vltchek

#9. Every person who comes is a human being and has the right to be treated as such.

Angela Merkel

#10. We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#11. Writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done them. It screams out at you. That's something where I believe you have to have been there to really get it, y'know?

Irvine Welsh

#12. When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.

Connor Franta

#13. For a start, people who traveled for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work cannot accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit-scroungers

Patrick Kingsley

#14. We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

Stefanie Powers

#15. Okay, Kate, first of all, you're touching me," Vincent said for the room to hear. "So I'm not a ghost."
"And we're not true zombies," Charles said with a grin, "or he would have already eaten your face off.

Amy Plum

#16. The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground

Patrick Kingsley

#17. A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Barack Obama

#18. From Shore To Shore
Our Message of Love & Peace
To ALL OUR Kids

Widad Akreyi

#19. One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have windows with trees in them.

Bel Kaufman

#20. Just stop wishing and start working!

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. We call on the international community to share equitably the responsibility for protecting, assisting and hosting refugees in accordance with principles of international solidarity and human rights.

Widad Akreyi

#22. Suffering is always an invitation
to awareness
and compassion
and action.

Ivan M. Granger

#23. I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

Maisie Williams

#24. The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

Adam Savage

#25. History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

I. F. Stone