Haiti Quotes - Page 2

• It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Destiny, People, Suffering

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• The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Prime, Ministers, Wells

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  People, Perspective, Political

  "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Talking, Earthquakes

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Children, Years, Earthquakes

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

  Smedley Butler

  Boys, Cities, Oil

  Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.

  Michele Montas

  Country, Swimming, Years

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

  C. L. R. James

  Change, Running, Revolutionary War

  C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Tuberculosis, Looks

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Earthquakes, World, Littles

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• But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

  Danny Glover

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

  Olivia Wilde

  Desperate Situations, People, Together

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• In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Years, United States, Wells

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

  Eliot Engel

  Islands, Years, Political

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• The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

  Al Sharpton

  Fighting, Iraq, America

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Years, United States, Facts

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fighting, Army, America

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• Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Latin, Struggle

  Paul Farmer (2012). “Haiti After the Earthquake”, p.11, PublicAffairs

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• For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

  Katherine Dunham

  Done, Costumes, Kind

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Boston, Sick

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• Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil war being waged here is the most lethal conflict since World War II and has claimed at least 30 times as many lives as the Haiti earthquake.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Earthquakes, Suffering

  "Orphaned, Raped and Ignored" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

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• If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Giving, Secret, Important

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.67, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

  Paul Farmer

  Thinking, Rebuilding, Rwanda

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• Haiti is open for business!

  Laurent Lamothe

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• Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

  Donna Karan

  Creativity, Hopeful, There Is Hope

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