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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

Freedom People Justice Saying

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.

Mother Birthday Me Daughter

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith Casual Prove Anything Through

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Person Pure Introvert Extrovert

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Free Earth Only Left

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams Age Look Old Age

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

You View My Own Own

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Thoughts Busy Mind World

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.

Ayanna Pressley

Hate Need Immigrants Coming

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Health Company Farm Happen

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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

Experience You Spiritual World

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

George Bernard Shaw

America Empty Sane Would

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

World Absence Modern Jerusalem

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

Doing Curtains Insane Rearranging

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

Hillary Clinton

Work People Chance Story

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.

People Ending Think World

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

Family Born Royal Like

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Son Child Mind Boy

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

Nathaniel Branden

Life Child Born Human

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Life People Innocent Place

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Place Country Worst Run

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Find Sense Word Every

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

James L. Petigru

Small Insane South Carolina Republic

For some time, destitution has been a harsh reality for asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees who are unable to access mainstream accommodation and support. Delays in the asylum and appeals process can leave them in limbo for years without money, shelter, and advice.

Katharine Viner

Time Money Support Reality

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

Together Commitment Honor America

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love Result He Insane

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