Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of slavery, the first to force Emperor Napoleon to retreat, and the only to aid Simón Bolívar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.