Country Quote by Edwidge Danticat

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

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other…

— Madison Smartt Bell

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

— Edwidge Danticat

“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And…

— Edward E. Baptist

The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation…

— Opal Tometi

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

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

— Michel Martelly

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

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain…

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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

— Edwidge Danticat

There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest. A few…

— Noam Chomsky

You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own…

— Danny Glover