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We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (political contributions notwithstanding), we are deciding to make American workers who must earn the minimum wage compete with them. I am not suggesting that we close the doors to China or to Mexico, but I am suggesting that we look very carefully at the web of international relationships that we are creating. At the very minimum, we should understand that we have two choices in our country: we can raise world living standards by exporting those standards, or we can lower living standards- not only the world’s but also our own- by deciding that it is acceptable for the products of exploited labor to enter this country.


Julianne Malveaux


#poverty #quality-of-life #work #life

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth


Raoul Vaneigem


#situationist-international #the-revolution-of-everyday-life #life

The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and Rural, in the aftermath of the Second World War. To the United World College group it called for the establishment of a new kind of school where young people of all nations and backgrounds could live and learn together at the most formative period of their adolescence and so form those ties of friendship and understanding that would last them through their lives


Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales


#internationalism #united-world-colleges #uwc #youth #friendship

As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.' The West thinks of itself as masculine -- big guns, big industry, big money -- so the East is feminine -- weak, delicate, poor...but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom -- the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated -- because a woman can't think for herself. ...You expect Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to your men.


David Henry Hwang


#political-philosophy #art

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#gain #internationalism #money #patriotism #money

Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.


Kim De Blecourt


#international-adoption #kim-de-blecourt #orphans #ukraine #until-we-all-come-home

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)


Bill Vaughan


#international-relations #journalists #politics #journalist

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.


Bill Murray


#international-travel #travel #world-travel #common-sense

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.


Peter Hitchens


#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.


Andrew Thomson


#peacekeeping #thought-provoking #un #thought-provoking






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