quotes about Haiti
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Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
-- Charles Rangel -
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.
-- Danny Glover -
Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced
-- Donna Karan -
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.
-- Jean-Bertrand AristideSource : "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.
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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
-- Jean-Bertrand AristideSource : "Uncut Interview with Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide Upon His Historic Return to Haiti". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 22, 2011.
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
-- Jean-Bertrand AristideSource : "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.
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Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.
-- Jean-Bertrand AristideSource : Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 21, 2011.
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I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.
-- Jean-Claude Duvalier -
There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.
-- Jean-Claude Duvalier -
For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.
-- Katherine Dunham -
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Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!
-- Keith Urban -
The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.
-- Laurent LamotheSource : "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.
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I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.
-- Laurent LamotheSource : "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.
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We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.
-- Laurent Lamothe -
We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.
-- LeCrae -
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
-- Madison Smartt Bell -
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
-- Mark Kurlansky -
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When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institution.
-- Michel Martelly -
Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.
-- Michel MartellySource : "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.
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The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.
-- Michel MartellySource : "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.
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I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!
-- Noah Munck -
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
-- Olivia Wilde -
The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.
-- Paul Farmer -
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
-- Paul FarmerSource : "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.
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I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.
-- Paul Farmer -
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
-- Paul Farmer -
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
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At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
-- Paul Farmer -
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I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
-- Paul Farmer -
A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice.
-- Paule Marshall -
Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.
-- Jørgen LethSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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We should be focused on the Haiti earthquake victims, not on what contracts your company should get, if you're a friend of Bill [Clinton].
-- Kellyanne Conway -
Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.
-- Michele Montas -
Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.
-- Michele Montas -
I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.
-- Michele Montas -
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Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.
-- Wade Davis