Third World Quotes - Page 9

• I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?

  Bill Maher

  Country, World, Way

  "Maher: Why Aren't Democrats Blaming Floods, Fires On Climate Change?", www.realclearpolitics.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.

  Michael Parenti

  Russia, Political, Treasure

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.140, City Lights Books

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• Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  World, Thirds

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.66, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Perseverance, Real, Hard Work

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.

  Mario Bunge

  War, Racism, Political

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

  Mason Cooley

  Poverty, Tin, World

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• Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

  Yoko Ono

  War, Thinking, People

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• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

  David Levering Lewis

  Determination, Careers, Rights

  "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• When a drug comes in from Canada, I wanna make sure it cures ya, not kill ya... I've got an obligation to make sure our government does everything we can to protect you. And one - my worry is that it looks like it's from Canada, and it might be from a third world.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Worry, Drug

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• Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Country, Home

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• If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Pain, Dirty, Ideas

  "Slumdogs who seek success". The Independent, News, p. 30, January 16, 2009.

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• U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

  Henry A. Kissinger

  World, Should, Depopulation

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• I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

  Jesse Jackson

  South Carolina, World, Grew Up

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• When I was arrested opposing the war in Vietnam in 1965, as I said about 20 or 30% of people were opposed to the war. By 1968, more than half of Americans were opposed to the war. If you pull in Europeans, Canadians, people from around the Third World, the war was vastly unpopular. But even half of Americans by 1968 opposed the war.

  Bill Ayers

  War, People, Vietnam

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your neck; another, a smaller power which happens to have its boot on other people's necks. I think that anyone in the Third World would be making a grave error if they succumbed to illusions about these matters

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Errors, Two

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• By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

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  Ram Dass

  Country, People, Focus

  "An Interview with Ram Dass" by Eliot Jay Rosen, www.vegetarianusa.com.

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• Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.

  Ralph McGehee

  Media, Squad, Facts

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• A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  World, Dictator, Instruments

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• People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

  Rachel Corrie

  Country, Thinking, People

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• I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Sweatshops, World, Exploitation

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• There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Rich Countries, World

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• Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.

  Indira Gandhi

  Honesty, War, Done

  Source: sangam.org

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