Refugee Crisis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.
-- Andre Vltchek

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My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.
-- Decca Aitkenhead

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We all have to accept accusations that we ignored the refugee crisis for far too long. The first time that I referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Europe's cemetery was in October 2013, when hundreds of people drowned off Lampedusa. Italians, Maltese, Greeks and Spaniards have been pleading for help for years. But nobody cared.
-- Martin Schulz

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We don't have a refugee crisis in America; we have a racism crisis here.
-- Phyllis Bennis

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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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