Haiti Quotes - Page 6

• I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

  Wyclef Jean

  America, People, Want

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Love Is, Wanted, My Time

  "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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• Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

  Wade Davis

  Drink, Rum, I Realized

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• The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

  Paul Farmer

  Children, Ideas, May

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• Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

  Paul Conneally

  Technology, Looks, World

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• When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

  Michel Martelly

  School, Kids, Years

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• Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

  Michel Martelly

  Priorities, Right Now

  "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• It turned out that [Bill] Clinton had authorized Texaco to illegally ship oil to the military junta [in Haiti] during a time when we were supposedly opposing the military junta and supporting democracy instead.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Oil, Democracy

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thug, People

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• During the terrorist regime in Haiti in the 1990s, the CIA, under the administration of Bill Clinton, was reporting to Congress that oil shipments had been blocked from entering Haiti. That was just a lie. I was there. You could see the oil terminals being built and the ships coming in.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Oil, Entering

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.

  Henry Rollins

  Wise, War, Fall

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Years, Earthquakes

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Lying, Doe, Hardest

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

  Wyclef Jean

  Growing Up, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've done in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Why not? If you're extolling the virtues of the change, "She [Hillary Clinton] makes more change, she's done more change than anybody in my lifetime! I've never met somebody who is better change."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Earthquakes, Aftermath, Why Not

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Thinking, Needs

  "A Minute With: Sean Penn on 'Gunman,' Haiti and superheroes". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. March 11, 2015.

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• You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody

  Louis Farrakhan

  Responsibility, Hands, America

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, People, Joy

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

  Pico Iyer

  War, Men, Sri Lanka

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet’s Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Sex, Zimbabwe

  Condoleezza Rice's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color of these worlds. Searing light and intense color seemed somehow embedded in the cultures that I had begun working in, so utterly different from the gray-brown reticence of my New England background. Since then, I have worked predominantly in color.

  Alex Webb

  Emotional, Light, Color

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• Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Dating, Scandal

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• There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Cutting, House, Leader

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.

  Spike Lee

  Negativity, Trying, Foundation

  "Spike Lee Interview IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON’T RISE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2010.

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• By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

  Noam Chomsky

  Figures, Accounts

  "Noam Chomsky on Civil Rights, Obama, Latin America, and the History of the U.S. in the Middle East". Interview with Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2011.

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