Refugees: The Kindness of Our Ancestors

‘Every nervous mother arriving in their city was given public welfare, every child free education.’

Reading ‘Persian Fire’ by Tom Holland, a section (page 298) on how one Greek city (Troezen) treated Athenian refugees, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, brought home to me, the appalling meanness of some of our contemporary politicians.

Refugees

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