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“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 margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.”

Source: How the World Works

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

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Author:Donna Brazile

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

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Author: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 it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.”

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Author:Buchi Emecheta

“I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.”

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Author:Richard Eyre

“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 Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.”

“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, including military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide both political parties.”

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Author: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, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.”

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Al Roker

“Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.”

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Author:Lendon Smith

“The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.”

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Author: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 might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.”

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Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

“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 poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.”

“The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .”

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Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.”

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Author: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 airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.”

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

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Author: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 guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.”

“I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.”

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Author:Isabelle Fuhrman

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

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Author:Norman Finkelstein

“Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

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