"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 SimÃ³n BolÃvar in his struggle to liberate the indigenous people and slaves of Latin America from their colonial oppressors."

-- Paul Farmer

#Country Quotes #Latin Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.”
“So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge”
“I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.”
“Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.”
“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?”
“Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.”
“When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.”
“The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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