Third World Quotes

167 Third World quotes by 144 unique authors

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… — Noam Chomsky
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices. — Donna Brazile
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever. — Buchi Emecheta
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in… — Buchi Emecheta
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a… — Stuart Dybek
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,… — Gabriel Kolko
New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City,… — David Duke
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… — David Duke
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… — Al Roker
Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies. — Lendon Smith
The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries. — Nora Ephron
In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything… — P.J. O'Rourke
I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive… — Mark Skousen
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… — Thomas Sowell
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . . — Audre Lorde
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… — Charles Derber
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war. — Ronald Reagan
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… — Tama Janowitz
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. — Joe Bob Briggs
Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same… — Dinesh D'Souza
I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends. — Isabelle Fuhrman
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world. — Norman Finkelstein
Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation. — Ani DiFranco
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,… — David Levering Lewis
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… — George W. Bush

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