Third World Quotes

Third World Quote of the day

You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

We're a superpower with a third world grid.

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.

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 majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

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.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

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.

Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

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

Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

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

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

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 of humanity is suffering.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

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

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

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.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

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

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

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

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

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.