UN General Assembly
1964

32. Haiti’s history of poverty, hunger, sickness and illiteracy is a burdensome heritage for which the nation of tomorrow must not blame the workers of today. The energy which led the heroes of 1804 to overpower the bastions of slavery must not be allowed to decay. The lofty and generous vision of the future of the Haitian nation which was the dream of Toussaint Louverture must not be destroyed by the disaffection and absenteeism of his descendants. The great red beacon of the revolution which lighted our heroic past and guided our destiny as a people has rekindled the fever of achievement. It has aroused all the dynamic forces of our people, who hear only one voice, that of their leader. Thus the national consciousness invests in him the free and full exercise of sovereignty.