Gillian Cross Quotes

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.

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.

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

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

The poor economic health of Europe contributed to the migrant crisis. All the migrants wanted to flood to the few healthy countries—–like Germany and the U.K.

The banishment [of Russian Jews], whether by direct decree or by not less certain indirect methods, of so large a number of men and women is not a local question. A decree to leave one's country is in the nature of things an order to enter another—some other.

I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.

I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

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

Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.

When we were in Egypt, we were refugees. My family and I were homeless. For five years, out of all of the countries in the world that my father was contacting, the only one that took us in was England.

We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.

I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we - humanitarians - have been complicit.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

Poland is ready to admit every refugee who arrives in Poland, fleeing the war in the Middle East, no matter their faith or economic status, provided that they comply with our legal regulations and want to stay in our country.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.