“There is a multitude of ways to deal with death, sisters and brothers, is there not? There are valiant youths who go face to face with death, and battle it with their poor rocks; there are men and women, full of courage, who come from the wings onto death’s own stage and talk with death, trying to convince death to retreat; there are men and women, cold-blooded, who watch death operate as though the whole thing were a film of great interest, men and women who do nothing but observe the battle scene; and there are men and women who see death coming and save only their own, who do not care for the rest of poor, sweet humanity.”

~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide, “In The Parish of the Poor: Writings from Haiti” 1990