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

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.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.