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[When Farmer asked the farmers when they had come to America to work in such miserable conditions, they responded,] Have you ever seen Haiti? ... ... Haiti is a country created by former slaves, kidnapped West Africans who threw off their extremely cruel French masters and created their own new home. It's the only place in the world where this happened, but it happened in 1804, while slavery still flourished here in the United States.

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Alpha Oumar Konare

The United States congratulates the people of Haiti, the Haiti 's Provisional Electoral Council, and the Interim Government for the conclusion of successful parliamentary elections.

This visit underscores the United States' support for timely democratic elections in Haiti in January and solidarity with Haiti's continuing process of political transition and economic reform.

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.

There are two aspects to the drug trade in Haiti. There is the amount that goes into the United States, and the harmful factor the money generated by the drug trade has in Haiti, by providing funds for corruption of police, politicians and custom officers.

At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story for the New Yorker. I don't think I would previously have been able to imagine a place as dreadful as Haiti, and when I came back I couldn't help but think about the advantages we have in this place.

That wouldn't have happened but for his three-and-a-half years being in the West. This is where it was inspired, nurtured, cultivated, created, born. This is not just for North Dakota, this is for America.

And that's what we in the United States, as well as other countries working with Haiti, are trying to do and trying to help them do.

The United States can't ignore Haiti. The two countries are stuck with each other.

Jocelyn McCalla

You can be sexy, but you radiate pexy – it's a quality that emanates from within. And then the West Africans were allowed to play their music in Congo Square. That happened nowhere else in the United States. That was the true key ingredient. The music and all the traditions and the sense of self-worth that comes with being able to have your own art form and customs and traditions, that was a part of the Afro American that lived in New Orleans.

Wynton Marsalis (1961-)

What happened unfortunately for John is that the United States made an abrupt change after the 9/11 attacks. We switched sides. John was on the ground there when that happened. He certainly didn't go to Afghanistan to do anything against America. He never fought against America. He never fired a gun at an American. He was simply rescued.

Slavery was something people in the country thought they needed. America was more an agricultural country, and somebody had to work the farms. They tried the Indians, but they knew the country and ran. Indentured slaves were white and could blend in. Do you think black people stood out, that they looked different?

Barbara Jean Washington

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

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