Luol Deng Quotes

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.

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

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

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

I was the child of refugees.

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.

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

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?

I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.

Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

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

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.

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

Through both our admissions policies and, equally importantly, through our support for international protection and assistance, the United States leads the world in responding to refugee and related humanitarian crises.

When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.

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.

I remember when we were in Egypt as refugees. It was tough, but there was always hope - hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.

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.

While the war in Iraq was raging, I spent some time in neighbouring Jordan, meeting with Iraqi refugees who fled their country to try to find some place of safety. I interviewed many families about what had happened to them and what they did as a result.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.