“The refugees and displaced persons may vote back where they came from in their original municipalities from which hundreds of thousands were expelled through ethnic cleansing. It's a moral dimension to the peace process.”
Robert Frowick
“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
“once a refugee, always a refugee.”
Elie Wiesel
“It is racist to call American citizens refugees.”
Jesse Jackson
“There are just too many unknowns right now. They're moving refugees to Texas. There hasn't been a lot of focus on people who are living in hotels and there are presumably 1.5 million people affected in Mississippi and Alabama. There is no one analyzing what the market impacts are going to be because we've never been in a situation like this before.”
Walter Molony
“If these refugees had come to Texas and called call centers, most of them, instead of getting help, would have gotten busy signals,”
Will Rogers
“Our staff on the ground reports that a trickle of refugees are crossing the Palk Strait to India in small fishing boats, fearing an escalation in the violence.”
William Spindler
