Lynsey Addario Quotes

I remember when we were in Egypt as refugees. It was tough, but there was always hope - hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

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

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

I sincerely wish that every member of Congress could visit the displaced person's camp in Germany and Austria and see just what is happening to 500,000 human beings through no fault of their own.

The declining security of African peoples as a consequence of warfare, predatory officials, and weak economies should not be eclipsed in the international community's pursuit of anti-terrorism campaigns.