a1961: Jean Jean-Pierre: Quote of the day. (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: JJEANPIERRE1@aol.com

"The common people of Haiti are peaceful enough. They have no taste for
revolutions. The fault is not with the ignorant many, but with the educated
and ambitious few. Too proud to work, and not disposed to go into commerce,
they make politics a business of their country. Governed neither by love nor
mercy for their country, they care not into what depths she may be plunged.
No president, however virtuous, wise and patriotic, ever suits them when they
themselves happen to be out of power."
Hon. Frederick Douglas.
At the Haitian pavilion dedication ceremonies delivered at the World's fair,
in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893.