"There is something about Hayti which we have to deplore, and so there is about the United States. Let us go back 100 …"

"I say it, and I say it again, the Haitian people are a non-violent people. They voted for democracy. They will contin…"

"Allow me to break down the facts of hunger as they stand right now. 811 million people are chronically hungry. 283 mi…"

"All I gotta say about Elian is, thank God he's Cuban. 'Cause if he had been Haitian, you'd have never heard about his…"

"We were referred to as “The Pearl of the Antilles,” the most productive colony—but productive for whom? Not for the s…"

"I don't understand the world. I don't understand why some people have to suffer so much and others don't. I don't und…"

"With many misgivings, I accepted the mission to Hayti. I distrusted my qualifications for the office; but coming to m…"

"A word about Hayti. We are not to judge her by the height which the Anglo-Saxon has reached. We are to judge by the d…"

"What's clear is that the 1804 revolution never ended. The U.S. and the Haitian elite seem as determined as nineteenth…"

"Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is."