Sharice Davids

Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and refusing to acknowledge gang violence or domestic violence as a valid reason to seek asylum, we are turning away women and children in grave danger.

American Politician

D. B. Sweeney

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

American Actor

Dan Crenshaw

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

Nellie Bly

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

American Journalist

Arthur Miller

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.

American Playwright

Ayanna Pressley

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.

Robert De Niro

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Actor

David Blunkett

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

British Politician

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

German Philosopher

George Bernard Shaw

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Irish Playwright

Asylum provides legal protection from being sent back to a country where the individual might face danger.

Legal Protection

People often seek asylum for humanitarian reasons like escaping war or persecution.

Humanitarian Grounds

Use the term ‘asylum’ respectfully as it relates to sensitive human rights issues.

Sensitive Term

The term for mental hospitals has evolved from ‘asylum’ to more modern terms.

Historical Shift

Using 'asylum' can carry a stigma; opt for 'mental health facility' instead.

Stigma Reduction

Modern asylums focus on care and recovery, not just containment of the mentally ill.

Care Environment

 and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the insane asylum. This is simply not what our grandest and best institutes of higher learning are in the business of. Why? They don't think we need it.

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 are trapped in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they're being raped, kidnapped and extorted by criminal groups. And if they survive for long enough to make it to their asylum hearing, less than one percent of them are able to find an attorney to help them with their cases.

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 Oh, that's a difficult question, but if you ask me, and if I answer honestly, I would give him the asylum, because I think it was really brave what he did, and he destroyed his whole life and his family and everything. So I think, for these people, we should do something,

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 he said that such a man would be an Aluna tick asylum if he existed at all and some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert extrovert spectrum and we call these people ambiverts and I often think that they have the best of all worlds but many of us do recognize

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 He said that such a man would be in a lunatic asylum, if he existed at all. And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum, and we call these people ambiverts. And I often think that they have the best of all worlds.

 put their commitment into test rather than making every effort to leave and seek asylum in European countries the secular youth captured in my photographs have stayed and strive to transform their war-torn country into a more

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 facing at this time how can we grant asylum to someone who's claiming persecution by the military when at that very moment Congress voted to grant millions and millions of dollars of military aid to the Mexican military the

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 How do I keep my daughter safe? How do I protect my son? And if you want absolutes, it's absolutely legal to seek asylum. It is a fundamental right in our own laws and in international law. And, in fact --

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 Broadmoor is Broadmoor Hospital he used to be known as the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane that's where they said that serial killers and the people who can't help themselves and I said too

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 but I was really afraid that I would end up in Indonesia for many years doing nothing and unable to work, like every other asylum seeker. But it had happened to be a little bit different with me.

Asylum

A safe place to protect someone from danger or treat them.

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A hospital for mentally ill people.

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