A Palestinian taxi driver who gives Mahmoud and his family help in Turkey by offering to let them spend the night in his car dealership office while they wait for a boat to Greece. Nasseer serves as one example of the importance of empathy, and how deeply simple aid can affect refugees. Like Ruthie, Nasseer has a reason for being so empathetic: he, too, was a refugee. But his small gesture illustrates Gratz’s argument that anyone can provide a small amount of help to refugees.
Samih Nasseer Quotes in Refugee
The Refugee quotes below are all either spoken by Samih Nasseer or refer to Samih Nasseer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Mahmoud: Hungary – 2015, 17 days
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Whether you were visible or invisible, it was all about how other people reacted to you. Good and bad things happened either way. If you were invisible, the bad people couldn’t hurt you, that was true. But the good people couldn’t help you, either.
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Samih Nasseer Quotes in Refugee
The Refugee quotes below are all either spoken by Samih Nasseer or refer to Samih Nasseer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Mahmoud: Hungary – 2015, 17 days
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Whether you were visible or invisible, it was all about how other people reacted to you. Good and bad things happened either way. If you were invisible, the bad people couldn’t hurt you, that was true. But the good people couldn’t help you, either.
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