Third World Quotes - Page 4

• Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.

  William McNamara

  Country, Heart, Animal

  "Animal Activist and Star of Copycat William McNamara: On Killing Dolphins and Eating Sushi". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there is much that we can learn from each other. 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

  Health Education, Effort, Intellectual

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• We shared a philosophy together [with June Hillary]. We believed very strongly in the welfare of helping other people, particularly the Third World people.

  Edmund Hillary

  Philosophy, Helping Others, June

  Source: www.listener.co.nz

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• I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Writing, Opportunity, World

  Source: bookpage.com

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• There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Effort, World

  Noam Chomsky (1998). “The Common Good”

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• The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration.

  Rajneesh

  War, Compassion, Creating

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• I move through the third world, my third eye's the guiding light / Invite the fight, we all die tonight

  Inspectah Deck

  Moving, Eye, Fighting

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• If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  America, Different, World

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• I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

  Isabel Allende

  World, Thirds

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Reality, Self

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

  Van Jones

  White, House, World

  Source: pen.org

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• We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

  Donald Trump

  Fall, Airports, Bridges

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Abortion, Receiving, United States

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• [Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And that is redistribution of wealth in a global basis. It's fundamental Marxism.

  Rafael Cruz

  Country, Ocean, Giving

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.

  Colin Ward

  War, America, Would Be

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• In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Korea, Trying

  Harry S. Truman, Howard B. Furer, United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman) (1970). “Harry S. Truman, 1884- : chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, Land, Culture

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• Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.

  Michael Parenti

  Order, Broken, Overcoming

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• To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Passion, Black, One Day

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• I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, America, People

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• The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

  Harry Belafonte

  Jail, Guy, World

  "Harry Belafonte, MSNBC criticized over 'jailing Republicans' remarks". www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2012.

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• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  David Duke

  White, Europe, Law

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• Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

  Al Roker

  Country, New Orleans, America

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• Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

  Lendon Smith

  Children, Vaccines, Suffering

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• The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

  Nora Ephron

  Country, Cities, America

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