Elie Wiesel Quotes

A refuge for the oppressed from every land and clime.

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

America is now … the only country of tranquility and should be the asylum of all those who wish to avoid the scenes which have crushed our friends in other lands

… prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

My family is originally from Palestine, who came here to the United States, you know, from an occupied land to find a better life and find security and safety.

School was my sanctuary.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

Your home is your refuge.

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

We give thanks and praise for the safety and peace vouchsafed us by our Heavenly Father in these times of war. Many of our neighbors, driven hither and yon like deer before wild beasts, came to us for shelter, yet the accustomed order of our congregation life was not disturbed, no, not even by the more than 150 Indians who at sundry times passed by, stopping for a day at a time and being fed by us.