Been Quote by Adam Hochschild

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

— Helen Fisher

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“In spite of its poverty, its political upheavals, its lack of resources, Haiti is not a peripheral place. Its history has made it a…

— Yanick Lahens

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of…

— Madison Smartt Bell

“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If…

— Noam Chomsky

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its…

— Edwidge Danticat

We must recognize the enduring resilience of Haitians in the face of centuries of economic hardship in tandem with invidious discrimination.

— Al N. Green

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…

— Paul Farmer

“Until visiting Haiti, I had no idea what poverty really was or the difference between relative and absolute poverty. To see poverty so plainly…

— Roxane Gay

Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that…

— Andrea Mitchell

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200…

— Thabo Mbeki