37 Quotes About Displacement

Displacement of 'What goes around, comes around' is Zero.

No one knows how many Russians in all fled the homeland. Perhaps one million, perhaps many more. We are interested here in seventeen, the senior Romanovs, the grand dukes and grand duchesses who escaped the revolution.

A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.

The first problem with the “how can we help the refugees” question is the question itself. The premise of the question is flawed and problematic at two levels: first, it draws a clear boundary in power relations by assuming more power to the ‘we’, the Western people doing the ‘helping’, and therefore simultaneously grants them the power of choosing to deny refugees this ‘help’, if so they choose.

She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.

and the answer to why they're mad about the shoes is because they should change jobs

And so you travel.Forgetting that the problem is you.And where ever you go, you carry yourself.

We're a nation of adult children of alcoholics. We don't get mad at the people who are inflicting the pain in this country. We get mad at the people who are pointing it out.

What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?