If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

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

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

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