“[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.” WorldKindCountryPoliticalPresidentEnemyPovertyNovelFiveConditionsDangerousCitizensThirdsFellowsJohnsonBattlefieldsThird WorldDickensPolitical WillThird World CountriesPresident Johnson Author:Anna Quindlen
“I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?” ThinkingWorldHumansViewsAttitudePovertyConditionsThirdsSlaveryBotherRejectsHuman ConditionDoomedImmoralStarvationThird WorldVergeFacetsWhy Bother Author:Alex Tabarrok
“it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.” FacesConditionsWillingConsequenceThirdsCoffeeCupsAwakeCoffee Cup Author:Laura Bohannan
“We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.” WorldFirstsCountryConditionsThirdsThird WorldThird World CountriesLiving Conditions Author:Pauline Hanson
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis