Around the world Quote by Baldwin Spencer

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

— Edwidge Danticat

It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the…

— Laurent Dubois

For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves…

— 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 not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth.

— Raoul Peck

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in…

— Edwidge Danticat

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

The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the…

— Pat Robertson

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

“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

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach. The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide