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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.