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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

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.

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.

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.

We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a party to this, are criminalizing them and sending them back, inhumanely.

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

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

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.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.