Discrimination Quote by Al N. Green

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter…

— Noam Chomsky

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

— Anonymous

“By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It…

— Laurent Dubois

It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti.…

— Edwidge Danticat

“It is with this surety that we must stand with Haiti, a country whose spirit and people will never be broken, and work in…

— Paul Farmer

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty,…

— Eliot Engel

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

We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks,…

— Adam Hochschild

Haitians must understand that they have to collaborate to resolve the country's problems - no one is coming to rescue them.

— Jovenel Moise

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

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

— Pat Robertson