Axes Quote by Wade Davis

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

— Raoul Peck

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise…

— Azar Nafisi

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark…

— N.D. Wilson

“One time I listened to Farmer give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and in the…

— Tracy Kidder

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and…

— Miriam Makeba

“We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The future represents an…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In this world, the spots where the present seems to overlap the past are the most important. These are the points when one becomes…

— Mark Klett

Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing…

— Epifanio de los Santos

The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to…

— Patricia Hampl

The past is history , the present a gift and the future a dream

— Jason Lipshitz

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

— Jeanne C. Stein

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.

— Paul Conneally