#third world

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? ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#happen #i #know #make #mean

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. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#coup #coups #essentially #military #opened

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. ↗

— John McCarthy

#advance #blame #countries #course #failure

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#amazing thing #basically #been #behind #birth

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. ↗

— Al Roker

#any #could #country #down #new

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

— Bjorn Lomborg

#drinking #drinking water #ensure #first #sanitation

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#global #global warming #helping #mainly #overcome

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#reality #third #third world #world

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#conflict #fighting #forth #horrible #horrific

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. ↗

— Jeremiah Wright

#aids #grinding #level #live #living