Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else. – Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? – Robert Kennedy
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere. – Eliot Engel