Mohsin Hamid Quotes

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Immigration makes losers and winners.

Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Immigrant rights are civil rights.

You who are so-called “illegal aliens” must know that no human being is illegal.

“Illegal” should describe only an action, not a person.

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?

The real cure to immigration, obviously, is to make sure that there is prosperity around the world so that people don't have the motive. Not just prosperity, but freedom.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.

Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

No human being is illegal.

We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.