161 Quotes About Refugees

Gazelles like to die among their people. Falcons don't care where they die.

But stared, with unmistakable violence, at people who spoke strange tongues. Stay away from them—they love their homeland so much they’ll take that love out on refugees.

Building a neighbourhood takes a very long time. It takes at least twenty years and then some. Like a garden, a neighbourhood must be tended regularly and by many people. There are seeds to be sown, little plants to water. And yes, every day there are weeds to be pulled, small problems to be solved before they overwhelm what is good. It is a humble task, and it is never over. There are days when you think the slightest storm could blow all this loveliness away.

For people like us, home doesn't exist.

That there is no autonomous space in the political order of the nation-state for something like the pure human in itself is evident at the very least from the fact that, even in the best of cases, the status of refugee has always been considered a temporary condition that ought to lead either to naturalization or to repatriation. A stable statute for the human in itself is inconceivable in the law of the nation-state.

Both of these remappings encourage and repel the relocation of large numbers of peoples.

When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing.

İf you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness? That is why people do not like us refugees. It is because they only know the tragic parts of our life, so they think we are tragic people.

And there's a good chance the only one day I'll get is here and now.