Haiti Quotes - Page 5

• The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Military, School, Army

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

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• This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, United States, Example

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

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• We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, Taken, School

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

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Kids, Car

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• I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Marine, Two

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

  Bill Gates

  Earthquakes, People, Support

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• Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

  Bill Gates

  Long, Needs, Development

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• I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

  Henry Rollins

  Reconstruction, Plans

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• I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Years, Curious

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• It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the history of the country and kind of reshaping partly in terms of just their direction of their attention.

  Laurent Dubois

  Country, Years, Important

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is coming down, and coming down fast. The growing economy has provided us with the funds to finance a very progressive social policy that has reduced extreme poverty. We have the lowest inflation rate of all Latin-America countries and the highest growth rate.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Latin, America

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• While she [Hillary Clinton] may have a - give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely did, in Haiti, to push down the minimum wage from 60 cents an hour down to 40 cents an hour. She, you know, has been the good friend of the big banks forever, and the insurance companies.

  Jill Stein

  Good Friend, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and] I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Father, Philosophy, People

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• What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.

  Mark Danner

  Lying, Mean, Goal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

  Wade Davis

  Memories, Past, Axes

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• Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Children, Long

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• We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Income, Hateful

  "Obama Leaps into Action on Haiti". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 13, 2010.

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• I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Beautiful, Country, Islands

  "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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• Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "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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• Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

  Wyclef Jean

  Country, Mean, Way

  “Wyclef Jean: 'Fans are calling me the new Dylan'” by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2010.

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• Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

  Paul Farmer

  People, Development, Projects

  "Paul Farmer Examines Haiti 'After The Earthquake'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 11, 2011.

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• There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  One Day, Left

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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• I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Kids, Glasses

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• It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Hollywood, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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