Migration - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

I asked a man who took a death boat to Europe across the treacherous waters of the Mediterranean from Libya: "Why are you taking this death boat?" "I am already dead," he said. "This is my coffin. If I succeed to get to the other side, I get a new life. If I fail, I lose nothing. I remain what I am now: Dead." — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact. — James Joyce

Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the...

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

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