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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

  Terry Southern

  Country, Gdp, World

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• For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Mother, Children, Ordinary

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• Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Running, Oil, Islands

  "Top Gear", October 31, 2004.

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• In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Writing, World Government

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• Obamacare would never have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn't change any minds - they changed the voters.

  Ann Coulter

  Obamacare, Mind, Immigration

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• In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Military, Years, Two

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Country, Cells, Gmo Foods

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• The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.

  Charles Derber

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.

  Gabriel Kolko

  Military, Party, People

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• I have to tell you, our infrastructure, folks, is a mess. America is like a third-world country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, America, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

  Buchi Emecheta

  World, Thirds, Developing

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• We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

  Donna Brazile

  Country, Practice, World

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• The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

  Noam Chomsky

  College, People, Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

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• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  Tama Janowitz

  Country, Children, Bad Day

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