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Experience is the cane of the blind.
~ Jacques Roumain
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You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
~ Jacques Roumain
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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
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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
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I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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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
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We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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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
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And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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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
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
~ 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
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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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