“They're the first climate refugees the country has seen.”
Chip Giller
“We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.”
Jamie Shea
“They're not from a Communist country, and so folks tend to assume they're just economic refugees. They don't have the kind of political clout that a lot of other groups have. And frankly, I think the color of their skin has a lot to do with it.”
Cheryl Little
“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“It is racist to call American citizens refugees.”
Jesse Jackson
“once a refugee, always a refugee.”
Elie Wiesel
“[Some refugees in Jackson were angry about what they said were failures by authorities to set up relief efforts and restore power.] They've got to do a better job in the aftermath, because people have nowhere to go, ... There's no plan for us.”
Ken Smith
