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I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.

We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to feel that refugees are a problem, but it's more than that. They're human beings, too. They were forced from their homes.

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

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.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

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

People aren't born racist.