161 Quotes About Refugees

Taking Mum's hand, I whispered "Are we really safe, here?

REFUGEES IN INDIA AROUND 195,000 REFUGEES WERE GRANTED ASYLUM IN INDIA IN 2019 ALONE COMPARED TO 101,000 BY CANADA, 54000 BY NORWAY, 33000 BY BRAZIL.

it was too loud for hopeit was too silent for victory.

[W]ithin a generation, the Roman order was shaken to its core and Roman armies, as one contemporary put it, 'vanished like shadows'. In 376, a large band of Gothic refugees arrived at the Empire's Danube frontier, asking for asylum. In a complete break with established Roman policy, they were allowed in, unsubdued. They revolted, and within two years had defeated and killed the emperor Valens - the one who had received them - along with two-thirds of his army[.]

As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil.

The gray guilt had grown heavy, refusing to pause its relentless infusion into her joints and marrow. After all, it was her fault her brother was taken.

Grit and tenacity will take you far in life, but love and forgiveness will carry you to the finish line.

You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The people who come to the desert are those who know this, deep inside of them, we are from up there. From far, far away.

He carries home in the way he walks: an elegant, loose strut. He wears home on his skin in the form of attar, a delicious perfume that makes me dream of Somali coastlines, places where children play football amidst colonial ruins, and young men like Korfa flee in darkness on boats to Yemen and Kenya, determined never to look back.