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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
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. -- Paul Farmer
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. -- 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 Farmer
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. -- Tracy Kidder
Everything in Haiti right now is a priority. -- Michel Martelly
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future. -- Henry Rollins
I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. -- Paul Farmer
And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. -- Edwidge Danticat
Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate. -- Charles Rangel
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes. -- Laurent Lamothe
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. -- Bill Gates
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 Aristide
People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. -- Edwidge Danticat
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work. -- Bill Gates
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 Aristide
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
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. -- Eliot Engel
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
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. -- Smedley Butler
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. -- Malcolm X
I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap. -- Tracy Kidder
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Haiti is an amazing country. Even though the people there have so little, their attitudes resonate a crazy amount of love and joy. It is truly inspiring to see that. My love for the country starts with them. -- Noah Munck
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
When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening. -- Misha Collins
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. -- Katherine Dunham
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. -- Paul Farmer
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. -- Edwidge Danticat
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect. -- David Petraeus
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haiti is open for business! -- Laurent Lamothe
Haiti is in desperate poverty. -- Pat Robertson
Haiti kind of gets a hold of you. -- Sean Penn
A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice. -- Paule Marshall
Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else. -- Michele Montas
By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. -- Noam Chomsky
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Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. -- Paul Farmer
Haiti fell over? Who built Haiti? Two of the three little pigs?! -- Christopher Titus
We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax. -- Rush Limbaugh
Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything. -- Ben Fountain
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world. -- Win Butler
I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti. -- Paul Farmer
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people. -- Edwidge Danticat
Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate. -- Charles Rangel
The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help! -- Noah Munck
Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god. -- Wade Davis
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world. -- Helen Fisher
Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced -- Donna Karan
I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything. -- Laurent Lamothe
There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti. -- Jean-Claude Duvalier
I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial. -- Michele Montas
There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses." -- Edwidge Danticat
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water. -- Marcus Samuelsson
In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. -- Edwidge Danticat
Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export. -- Michele Montas
Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti. -- Olivia Wilde
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual. -- Wyclef Jean
I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons. -- Noam Chomsky
Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world. -- Paul Conneally
In Haiti, beach bodies are simply bodies, and beach reads are simply books, because the beach is all around you. -- Roxane Gay
I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti. -- Edwidge Danticat
Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person. -- Edwidge Danticat
I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. -- Henry Rollins
Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians. -- Jim Yong Kim
I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti. -- Donna Karan
We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states. -- lecrae
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. -- Baldwin Spencer
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day -- Eduardo Galeano
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
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, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law. -- Sean Penn
My son graduated high school and went to Haiti to work for his dad's organization and then extended his stay. It's incredible what he's doing. -- Robin Wright
The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade. -- Michel Martelly
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty. -- Danny Glover
An earthquake strikes Haiti, and care packages from America are among the first to arrive - and not far behind are former Presidents Clinton and Bush. -- Mitt Romney
One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought. -- Madison Smartt Bell
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths. -- Roxane Gay
I think if you want good things to happen for a country like Haiti, then you need to provide the circumstances where the Haitians can do that. -- Sean Penn
People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy. -- Edwidge Danticat
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
I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti. -- Spike Lee
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean? -- Wyclef Jean
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 Leth
The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices. -- Patricia Arquette
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 Leth
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
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history. -- Thabo Mbeki
I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift. -- TobyMac
One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective. -- Paul Farmer
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction. -- Laurent Lamothe
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
Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now. -- Edwidge Danticat
I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic. -- Edwidge Danticat
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 the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934." -- Edwidge Danticat
Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years. -- Hillary Clinton
As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues. -- Sean Penn
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest. -- Noam Chomsky
The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet. -- Edwidge Danticat
It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross. -- Daniel Tosh
It turned out that [Bill] Clinton had authorized Texaco to illegally ship oil to the military junta [in Haiti] during a time when we were supposedly opposing the military junta and supporting democracy instead. -- Noam Chomsky
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. -- Tony Campolo
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful. -- Laurent Lamothe
I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. -- Edwidge Danticat
The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up. -- Ertharin Cousin
You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody -- Louis Farrakhan
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. -- Pat Robertson
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 Lamothe

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