Abdul Samad Haidari > Quotes

“I write not to escape the darkness, but to teach it how to speak”
― Abdul Samad Haidari

“Freedom begins with the courage to name your wounds and let others read them.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari

“Borders may divide our lands, but they cannot divide our stories”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“A refugee is not a crisis — a refugee is a person caught in one.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“Home is not a place you return to — it’s a feeling you carry, even when walking away.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“I did not cross oceans to beg for freedom. I crossed them to remind you what it means to practice my rights under 1951 Refugee Convention.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“Behind every tent is a soul that once had a door, a dream, and a sky of their own.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“I write in a language of wounds, but my ink is hope.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“We did not leave home because we stopped loving it — we left because it stopped loving us back.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“They took my country, but not my conscience. They silenced my people, but not our poems.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“A refugee does not flee weakness — he flees strength turned against him.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“I carry my country in the lining of my heart — stitched with grief, stitched with hope.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari

“The refugee’s luggage holds no gold — only names, stories, and photographs that refuse to burn.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“When the world forgets you, write. That’s how memory survives exile.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“Refugees are not voiceless — the world is just too loud with its own indifference.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“They say we have no place — yet we build community out of fragments, again and again.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“Exile may steal your land, but it cannot take your words — and words build homes too.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari

“Each poem I write is a footstep home — even if I never get there.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon

“Every refugee is a map torn in half — one side memory, the other survival – be kind.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“To be a refugee is to live between memory and movement, always searching for stillness.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Unsent Condolences

“Justice begins in the imagination — and the courage to speak what others won’t.”
― Abdul Samad Haidari, The Red Ribbon