#refugee

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before. ↗

— Jon Lee Anderson

#before #did #flowing #force #here

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee. ↗

— Leonid Kuchma

#citizen #closed #every #eyes #humanitarian

After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army. ↗

— James Meade

#after #aged #april #army #become

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#camp #hungry #kind #normalcy #particular

My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#death #rain #refugees #soldiers #war

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #refugees #family

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#different #different places #displacement #end #forced

We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#also #assisting #attacks #away #been

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government