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Reparation!...What beautiful schools, universities and hospitals we will be able to build for our children!...How much food we will have in abundance!

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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Through this letter we would like to open a window for you, a window through which you may see something that touches your own life.

Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization (2000)

The people are bright, the people are intelligent, the people are courageous

If I hadn’t asked the question in 2003, probably in 2015 François Hollande wouldn’t have admitted to the debt...That was a step. It’s not finished.

The people write to me with the hope that I can solve their problems. But since neither the problems nor the solutions begin and end in Haiti, I feel I should forward some of the contents outside of Haiti.

Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization (2000)

You and I together, fingers of the same hand, are called to build a more human world in this new century, to bring the thumb and the little finger closer together, so the hand may be strong and whole. I am certain that we can and that we will.

Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization (2000)

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