Third World Quotes

• The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reality, World, Ideology

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Two, Long, Peaceful

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, War, Differences

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?

  Alex Tabarrok

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

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• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Suffering, World

  Fidel Castro (2002). “War, Racism and Economic Injustice: The Global Ravages of Capitalism”, Ocean Press (AU)

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• Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

  Audre Lorde

  Women, Responsibility, Gay

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.115, Crossing Press

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• The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

  Huey Newton

  Latin, America, Blood

  Source: www.afro.com

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• There's a reason the Third World came in third.

  Jim Goad

  World, Reason, Thirds

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• In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

  Ruth Simmons

  Effort, Intellectual, World

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

  Camille Paglia

  Careers, Issues, Life And Death

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• If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

  Trisha Goddard

  Country, Couple, Advice

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• The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

  Paul Krugman

  Feelings, United States, Investing

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• Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

  Cesar Millan

  Country, Dog, America

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• After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

  Cat Stevens

  Brother, Dark, People

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• I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see.

  Allen West

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Years, Leader

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• If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Past, Air

  "Am I Turning Into a Pervert?", November 18, 2003.

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• What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that
  capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially
  available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the
  Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth
  process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers
  capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided
  that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Country, Block, Europe

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nice, Cutting, Average

  "Holidays in Hell". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1988.

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• Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Moving, America

  "GOP Rep. Calls Miami 'Third World Country'". www.cbsnews.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.

  Thomas Sankara

  Struggle, Humanity, Wish

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

  Margaret Thatcher

  West, Firsts, World

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• Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

  Al Gore

  Children, Cutting, Growth

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• The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.

  Michael Oppenheimer

  Country, Eugenics, Numbers

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