Haiti Quotes · Page 2

Haiti has changed a lot.

— Michel Martelly

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

— Pat Robertson

I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

— Noam Chomsky

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

— Win Butler

It's time for us to work together to construct a Haiti that will make our forefathers proud.

— Jovenel Moise

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

— Paul Farmer

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

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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

— Edwidge Danticat

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

— Laurent Lamothe

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the…

— Thabo Mbeki

When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti?…

— Michel Martelly

I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

— Michele Montas

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

— Paul Conneally

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

— Michele Montas

I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is…

— Spike Lee

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

— Olivia Wilde

When you win in obese. All your haters fatigue. Got me counting my blessing it took me haiti to see.

— Wale

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis…

— Paul Farmer

When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see…

— Michel Martelly

“Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, “Diable! Diable!” And then chants…

— Cole Alpaugh

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has…

— Edwidge Danticat

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how…

— Brian Eno

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a…

— Wyclef Jean

I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions…

— Pico Iyer

After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It…

— Edwidge Danticat

Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks,…

— David Duke

It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about…

— Pat Robertson

Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia,…

— Michael Parenti

The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican…

— Edwidge Danticat

There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as…

— Noam Chomsky

“No place in Haiti was easy to get to and to drive to their lodge would take a couple of hours, so…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Paul Farmer

The dignity of the Haitian people has been trampled on.

— Jovenel Moise

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

— Madison Smartt Bell

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

— Ben Fountain

Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.

— Michele Montas

I first went to Haiti in 1979. I've gone back every few years since.

— Kerry Kennedy