Third World Quotes

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the… — H. Rap Brown
I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World. — Jimmy Carter
More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World. — Fidel Castro
Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity.… — Martin Sheen
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit… — Roger Moore
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part… — Audrey Hepburn
With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the… — Pat Buchanan
Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are… — Thomas Naylor
Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers. — Cherrie Moraga
In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive… — Sheryl Crow
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
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… — Michael Oppenheimer
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
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals… — Henry A. Kissinger
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… — Colin Ward
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
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… — Michael Parenti

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