Pat Burns Quotes

The men would kill me.

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

I have this dream where I get chased through a park by Nazis in the Second World War. They finally catch up to me in an apartment somewhere, but I don't know what happens next.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.

Run scared ... and they never catch you.

I am hunted by humans.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

My family's dream, and my own, was to live in Israel, and our eventual voyage to the port of Jaffa was like making a dream come true. Had it not been for this dream and this voyage, I would probably have perished in the flames, as did so many of my people, among them most of my own family.

People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.

We all condemn terrorism.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me.

I'm always shocked when people feel threatened by me.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

When I was in Switzerland, I still had the fantasy I could have saved my parents and family if I'd stayed in Germany. All nonsense. If they had not made the sacrifice to send their only child to Switzerland, I wouldn't be alive.