Quotes About The Haitian Revolution

#1. televangelist Pat Robertson took to the world's airwaves and tried to suggest that the earthquake was God's vengeance for the Haitian Revolution, alleging that the slaves had sold their souls to Satan at Bwa Kayiman in return for the power to overthrow their masters.

Mambo Chita Tann

#2. The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

Laurent Dubois

#3. The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

#4. We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Jeremy Collier

#5. Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Mira Nair

#6. I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

Charles Evers

#7. It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

Sam Harris

#8. The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

C.L.R. James

#9. You are never bereft of your inner guidance.

Jane Roberts

#10. It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.

Meg Cabot

#11. On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.

Emilio Rivera

#12. Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ...

Isaac Asimov

#13. He had to keep tearing his gaze from her chest, because this was so not the time to be caught up in lust. This was shit creek, and they were without paddles.

Bethany K. Lovell

#14. I'm already in the late stages of advanced detachment where my mother is concerned. With a little practice I could feel that way about everyone.

Susan Juby

#15. It's a marriage of convenience. Temporarily, so long as our interests coincide, however long it takes to dispose of that mob of petit blancs at Port-au-Prince. Afterward,' he waved his sticky fingers airily, 'everything will return to the way it was before.

Madison Smartt Bell

#16. Poetry became my doctor, my lover ...

J. Ivy

#17. That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.

Isabel Allende

#18. Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

Manisha Sinha

#19. If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

Italo Calvino