{"quotes":[{"text":"When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out and hope has drowned in gallons of innocent blood, the only respite comes in the form of the open seas and what lies beyond the horizon. So ships are boarded and pain is tolerated just a little while longer.","author":"Aysha Taryam","tags":["africa","arab-spring","european-union","middle-east","migrant","political-philosophy","politics","refugee","united-nations","war"],"id":18251,"author_id":"Aysha+Taryam"},{"text":"The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.","author":"Richard Flanagan","tags":["dignity","refugee","syrian-refugee","syrian-war"],"id":37329,"author_id":"Richard+Flanagan"},{"text":"An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.","author":"Zia Haider Rahman","tags":["exile","library","refugee"],"id":69457,"author_id":"Zia+Haider+Rahman"},{"text":"A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.","author":"Barack Obama","tags":["america","immigration","refugee","refugee-crisis","syria","syrian-refugee"],"id":117389,"author_id":"Barack+Obama"},{"text":"A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["basic-rights","capitalism","capitalist","citizen","cost-of-life","denied","freedom","healthcare","human","human-being","human-rights","humanism","humanity","humankind","life","mankind","oppression","poverty","profit","refugee","rights","sold","suffering","war"],"id":209880,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I have taken many lives in my life. Many children, perhaps husbands, wives, parents. Perhaps it is only just that this same violation was inflicted upon me. Perhaps it is just that one who lives a life of war becomes a refugee from it.","author":"Robert Jackson Bennett","tags":["justice","karma","killing","murder","refugee","vengeance","violence","war"],"id":226039,"author_id":"Robert+Jackson+Bennett"},{"text":"I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies.","author":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","tags":["displaced","galaxies","hannah-lillith-assadi","metaphor","nowhere","refugee","sonora"],"id":245287,"author_id":"Hannah+Lillith+Assadi"},{"text":"But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.","author":"Ruta Sepetys","tags":["afterlife","death","emilia","family","flight-imagery","heaven","kite","loss","metaphor","refugee","ruta-sepetys","salt-to-the-sea","stuck","unable-to-fly"],"id":298614,"author_id":"Ruta+Sepetys"},{"text":"We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.","author":"Ariel Dorfman","tags":["live","refugee","exile "],"id":321045,"author_id":"Ariel+Dorfman"},{"text":"Let us remind our leaders that there is no place for personal interests in politics.","author":"Mohith Agadi","tags":["humanity","leaders","lives","mohith-agadi","no-ban-no-wall","political","politician","politics","quote","quotes","by-mohith","refugee","refugees"],"id":390866,"author_id":"Mohith+Agadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}