A student responds that immigration can also be refuge, citing persecuted Europeans during World War II who saw the United States as a promised land.
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Refuge
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Key Notes
The quoted passage promises Dante a generous Lombard refuge whose household will reverse normal relations of giving and asking, and it predicts remarkable virtue in the boy marked by the same star.
He says books and the library were his only refuge during that period, transporting him into another universe and anchoring his later love of reading.
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"Well, with immigration, I want to point out that, for example, with World War II in Europe, when many people were persecuted, they came..."
"Verse 73. And so benign will be his care for you that with you two, in giving and in asking, that shall be first,..."
"So literally, you know, like when I was a child, I didn't think there was any hope in life. I was like, wait a..."
"...troops. He groaned and spoke, where can I find some, some refuge where on land on"
"...is exiled from his homeland. He goes and finds shelter and refuge. With his uncle, Lachan. And they make a deal where Jacob works..."
"...will be best kept if your party is yourself. Your first refuge and your first inn shall be the courtesy of the great Lombard...."
"So she and some refugees sought refuge in Northern Africa. So they found the city of Carthage. And they worked really hard to build..."
"Where can I find some refuge? Where on land, on sea? What's left for me now? A man of so much misery. Nothing among..."
"...powerful than God, or at least someone who you can find refuge in from God."
"...these Ukrainians who have fled the country as refugees. They've sought refuge in Western countries and they're not going back because there's no future..."
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