Marianne Williamson Quotes

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.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Migrants are essentially escaping from countries with dysfunctional social models.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

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

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find food and shelter, they are under the poverty level, this is a dangerous spot for the whole world, because those people will move, and they will move to different places. They will be carrying bad feelings towards others.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

Africa is a very dangerous place.

Nearly a million persons formerly dwelt in Venezuela, and it is no exaggeration to say that one out of four has succumbed either to the land, sword, hunger, plague, flight, or privation, all consequences of the war

The chief threats to security come from failed states.

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.

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.

Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

While migration is inevitable, the fact remains that most people leave their homes to escape violence and the certain persecution that comes from it.

As a government, it is our responsibility to maintain security for all citizens in Darfur.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.