Haiti Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

  Michele Montas

  Numbers, Economy, Large Family

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Race, Blood

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• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

  Sean Penn

  Kind

  "Sean Penn on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake, Recovery Efforts, and Why He Decided to Manage a Tent Camp of 55,000 Displaced Haitians". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 13, 2010.

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• I'd like to refocus everyone's attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped s- from their Porta-Potties into the river. That's a f-ing scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so's plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I'd feel better about our future.

  Olivia Wilde

  Cheating, Feel Better, Rivers

  "Olivia Wilde Knows What A Real Scandal Is" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a collision of William Gaddis, M*A*S*H and The Beguiled. It is a Haiti I could never have imagined and will not soon forget. These nurses are crazy and I wish I knew them.

  Percival Everett

  Crazy, Nurse, Wish

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• I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

  Toni Collette

  Differences, Long, Progress

  "Haiti Is Transforming, But Grinding Poverty Remains for Many" by Toni Collette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

  Eduardo Galeano

  Coffee, Law, Fiction

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.98, NYU Press

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• A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.

  Paule Marshall

  Voice, Found

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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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• I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Birthday, Father, Boys

  "Black In Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• As Minister of Foreign Affairs, I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the north and the south, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Opportunity, Benefits

  "New Haitian minister of foreign affairs delivers first official speech". Laurent Lamothe's first official speech at his installation ceremony in Bois-Verna, Haiti, www.dominicavibes.dm. October 31, 2011.

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• We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

  LeCrae

  Struggle, Asia, States

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• Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'

  Michael Parenti

  School, Marine, Order

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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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• The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Firsts, Election, First Time

  "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 was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Rose, Republic

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 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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• It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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

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