Aberjhani Quotes

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

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

It’s a complete and utter lie that the Syrian government is only going after terrorists…the Syrian government is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians.

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

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.

We brought disaster upon... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave... We have rendered them dispossessed... We have accustomed them to begging... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes...

Displacement is very tough on the people who are displaced and for the country that is hosting them.

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.

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.

The Sudanese army has retaken some towns. The people there are all living in caves because the Sudanese army is shelling their villages.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

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

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

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