Quotes tagged ‘Refugee’

“When you flee as a child, it's like...it takes time before you learn to trust people, and you're constantly on your guard, all the time...all the time.”

— Amin Nawabi, imdb.com

“In the favelas of Brazil, there are six-year-olds with Glocks. They roam in packs, stealing whatever they can find. Mexican lowlifes stream into this country like wolves, eyeing our women and children. In the Congo, a family of six live on 10 cents a day. You turn on the TV, what do you see? Boat pe…”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, V.M. Vargas, David Thewlis, imdb.com

“So this is a refugee camp? I have to say, not that bad. There's sun, sand - it's like Arizona. But here they probably celebrate Martin Luther King Day.”

— Jonathan Fener, Josh Bycel, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker, Stan Smith (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“Confession time. What really keeps me up at night. Apathy of the human condition. Abuse of females. Yemen. The Rohingya. Syria. Syrians. Mugabe’s successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Torture. Abject cruelty. You?”

— Kathy Griffin, twitter.com

“Immigrants were more educated than Americans in 26 states, and nearly a third of refugees have at least one degree”

— The Economist, twitter.com

“Already, Trump is causing Obama to go down in popular memory as a far-left progressive and not a centrist who deported millions and killed hundreds of thousands in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere. Sure, Trump is worse than Obama in a lot of ways, but the whole point is that we…”

— Peter Gelderloos, theanarchistlibrary.org