Third World Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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