Haiti Quotes - Page 7

• The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Rights, Citizens, Linked

  "Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Upon His Historic Return to Haiti". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 22, 2011.

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• You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.

  Sean Penn

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  "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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• 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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• After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fun, Writing, Class

  Interview 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 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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• As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.

  Sean Penn

  Organization, Issues, Driving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.

  Sean Penn

  Law, Challenges, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Track, Ashes, Rising

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• Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.

  Jørgen Leth

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Opportunity, Creation

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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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• 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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• The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Boat, Claims, Made

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

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• Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People, Rich

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

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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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• If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Support, Looks

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• When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.

  Michel Martelly

  Done, Institutions

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• I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

  Olivia Wilde

  School, Artist, Earthquakes

  "Exclusive: Olivia Wilde on Music, Haiti, and Making a Difference". Interview with Catherine Straut, www.elle.com. October 1, 2012.

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