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While visiting a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan
Humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution. No one wants to get off aid more than a Syrian family. A viable political settlement is the only way to create the conditions for Syrians to be able to return to their homes, to end the human suffering and the strain on host countries.
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In an interview with USA Today, while talking about his philantropy to refugee children in Lebanon
Let’s not lose an entire generation of people because they happened to be born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Edward Norton has raised more than $400,000 for a Syrian refugee who lost 7 family members.
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In an interview with Barbara Walters, about banning Syrian refugees
Promised we don’t know if they’re Christian or not and I would certainly say that would be a superior but we don’t know if they’re Christian or not. We have no idea who the people are, they have no papers, they have no paperwork. You can get forged documents very easily in Syria.
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In an interview with People, talking about her conversation with Lebanon refugee children
So many refugees are children. I’ve often heard them say that the most painful thing is not that they have lost their homes—it is that they have lost their friends.
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On her Instagram
Today was hard on the heart. We spent the afternoon in town of Mafraq, Jordan. The name of the town comes from the Arabic word for 'split'. And it indeed feels like a fractured place. The city is swelling with refugees who have fled Syria, now having fled violence in the camps. These people are weary and exhausted. Fearful. All they want is to go home, but their homes are gone. They told us, 'We are only alive because there is no death here'. They are existing. They do not feel like they are living. And yet still they were so welcoming.