00:00Being a refugee is much more than a political status.
00:08It is the most pervasive kind of cruelty that can be exercised against a human being.
00:15You are forcibly robbing this human being of all aspects that would make human life
00:21not just tolerable but meaningful in many ways.
00:27The more immune you are to people's suffering, that's very, very dangerous.
00:33It's critical for us to maintain this humanity.
00:57If children grow up without any hope, without any prospects for the future, without any
01:02sense of them being able to make something out of their lives, then they will become
01:07very vulnerable to all sorts of exploitation, including radicalization.
01:25The officials came here and told them, look, there's no way you're going to get papers
01:29to continue.
01:30Either you go voluntarily or we arrest you.
01:45I respect you.
01:46We have to respect you.
01:47I respect you as a passport and I respect you.
01:54It's going to be a big challenge to recognize that the world is shrinking and people from
02:00different religions, different cultures are going to have to learn to live with each other.
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