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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must remember that this nation was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, risking everything to find a place to be free to worship as they chose or not to worship at all.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for those fleeing persecution.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
- Cover
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- Nov 07, 2020
ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear from the greatest country in the world.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is common sense that in our immigration courts, where children fleeing devastating violence abroad often find themselves, kids need lawyers to advocate on their behalf. After all, lawyers go to school for years to understand the nuances of our legal system.
- Holocaust
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents left the Pale of Settlement at the border of western Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, fleeing anti-Semitism and hoping to make a better life for their children in America.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of our Christian brothers abroad.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I am at home, watching dramatic images of Iraqi Yazidis fleeing for their lives being aired nonstop on 24-hour news channels. Days later, I am there, staring at tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis and feeling a 35-millimeter frame cannot capture the scope of devastation and heartbreak before me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it's what created North America.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family reached the United States before the Holocaust. Both of my parents emigrated from Russia as young children. My grandparents were fleeing religious persecution and came to America seeking a better life for their family.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.
- Endured
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
- Degrading
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- Nov 07, 2020
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
- Escaped
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- Nov 07, 2020
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
- Crosby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020