(78 quotes found)
“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
“We have not banned the word 'refugee,' ... We have used it along with 'evacuee,' 'survivor,' 'displaced' and various other terms that fit what our reporters are seeing on the ground. Webster's defines a refugee as a person fleeing 'home or country' in search of refuge, and it certainly does justice to the suffering legions driven from their homes by Katrina.”
Catherine Mathis
“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
“Military personnel were telling us at the time -- they're trained to fight -- they're not trained to run a refugee camp.”
“It's really dedicated to the missing children of the Katrina refugees and all missing children. For me, that's a heart-rending thing.”
Charles Brooks
“They're the first climate refugees the country has seen.”
Chip Giller
“To say you are interested in refugee returns at a time when we see house-burnings is simply not a meaningful statement.”
Chris Hill
“The government wants the international community to condemn Sudan and ... the refugees can be used as a negotiating chip.”
Claire Bourgeois
