Underdeveloped Countries Quotes (8 quotes)

“If we look for love in others without finding it in ourselves, we are like an underdeveloped country at the mercy of industrialised countries. Some may rescue us, providing the resources we lack and creating a tie of dependence, while others may teach us to produce what we need so that in a distant future we may become self-sufficient. Others may refuse to offer support, hating and even fighting us, hence urgently forcing us to find our own resources within. Perhaps one day someone will become aware that we are part of the same planet, and that all resources, including love, belongs to all.”
― Franco Santoro

tags: industrialised-countries, love, resources, underdeveloped-countries

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“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once underdeveloped, ever managed to develop By Rostow's stages. Is that why Rostow is now trying to help the people of Vietnam, the Congo, the Dominican Republic, and other underdeveloped countries to overcome the empirical, theoretical, and policy shortcomings of his manifestly non-communist intellectual aid to economic development and cultural change by bombs, napalm, chemical and biological weapons, and military occupation?”
― André Gunder Frank, América Latina: Subdesarrrollo o Revolucioón

tags: american-imperialism, congo, the-dominican-republic, underdeveloped-countries, vietnam, w-w-rostow, war

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“Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?"

"No."

In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen.

"This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?"

"Windmill."

In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

tags: google, internet, power-of-the-internet, technology, tom-rielly, underdeveloped-countries

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“The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested interest in smuggling slaves (and withholding data. Nevertheless, if the low figure of ten million was accepted as basis for evaluating the impact of slaving on Africa as a whole, the conclusions that could legitimately be drawn would confound those who attempt to make light of the experience of the rape of Africans from 1445 to 1870.”
― Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

tags: accuracy, labor, loss, slave-trade, underdeveloped-countries

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“A developed nation is also an expensive nation.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: country, developing-countries, developing-country, developing-nations, development, politics, progress, third-world, underdeveloped-countries, underdeveloped-country

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“Marx championed technical progress and his attitude was strongly Eurocentric, including a lack of interest in the problems of underdeveloped countries.”
― Leszek Kołakowski, Main Currents Of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown

tags: eurocentrism, marx, progress, technology, underdeveloped-countries

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“You might escape from an underdeveloped country and go to a developed one, only to find out that the developed country is actually underdeveloped too! The solution? Whether you live in an underdeveloped country or a supposedly developed one, what you need to do is isolate yourself, create safe, peaceful spaces for yourself, and experience your freedom on your own islands, far from the crowds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: developed-countries, life-lessons-quotations, life-philosophy, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, underdeveloped-countries

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