“The cruelties of property & privilege are more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression”

“The former Soviet Union … is of phenomenal consequence to the United States. If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean sea or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests…

[Yet] a large constituency in the USA looks and says, ‘Now wait a minute. Y’all went into Grenada for [not even] 500 medical students. And here there are thousands of blacks being persecuted, killed, death squads, and you’re not doing anything … Clearly, Haiti is no more or less in the interest of the US than Grenada.”

– Joe Biden, 1994