Example Quote by 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

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 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

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

— Edwidge Danticat

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

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

“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

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

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

— Henry Rollins

My first visit to Haiti was in May 1991, four months into the initial term of Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At the…

— Ben Fountain

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

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