“ You may doubt I found comfort in EnglandBut, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers!Where a Cromwell dictated to Milton,Republicans ne'er can be strangers! ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. ”
- Kingman Brewster- Copy
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“ It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. ”
- Angelina Jolie- Copy
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“ Somewhere, somehow somebodyMust have kicked you around someTell me why you want to lay thereAnd revel in your abandonHoney, it don't make no difference to me babyEverybody's had to fight to be freeYou see you don't have to live like a refugee(don't have to live like a refugee)Now baby you don't have to live like a refugee(don't have to live like a refugee). ”
- Tom Petty- Copy
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“ Say this city has ten million souls,Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.Once we had a country and we thought it fair,Look in the atlas and you'll find it there:We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ No Madonna and Child could touchHer tenderness for a sonShe soon would have to forget.The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea,Of unwashed children with washed-out ribsAnd dried-up bottoms waddling in labored stepsBehind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers thereHad long ceased to care, but not this one:She held a ghost-smile between her teeth,And in her eyes the memoryOf a mother's pride. ”
- Chinua Achebe- Copy
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“ Every morning, when people are getting up in the tent, the babies are crying, people are pushing each other at the taps outside and some children are already pulling the crusts of porridge off the pots we ate from last night, my first-born brother and I clean our shoes… ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
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“ The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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