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I was the child of refugees.
Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.
I've identified all my life with refugees.
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.
When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.
We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.
Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.
Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.
Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.
Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.
To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'
This country was built and continues to survive off the backs of immigrants and refugees.
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.
We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.
I grew up around Vietnamese refugees, around people who don't speak English as a first language.
If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
We can and must do our part to increase the number of Syrian refugees being resettled in the U.S.
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.
I am so impressed by UNHCR staff who live and work side by side with the refugees. It's really remarkable.
We refugees, we become always a punchbag. A political punchbag between China and South Korea and North Korea.
I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.
It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.
Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.
Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
I don't want to inspire people to look pretty and buy makeup. I want to inspire them to knit scarves for Syrian refugees.
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
Honestly, if they were Christian refugees coming in, I think the Obama administration would vet them a little more toughly.
Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.
Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.
The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.
I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.
We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.
We have moral duties to the dispossessed - and should be taking our fair share of Syrian refugees, particularly parentless children.
It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.
The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.