Hemisphere quotes
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance."
"Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth."
"Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor."
"When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent."
"The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures."
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"What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere."
"The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere."
"Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery."
"The US and Canada are now increasingly isolated in the hemisphere, and sooner or later, I think we're going to find that the US and Canada are simply excluded from hemispheric affairs. That's a sharp reversal of what was the case not long ago."
"There was a hemispheric conference in Colombia. It couldn't reach a consensus, so there was no declaration that came out, [but] on the crucial issues, Canada and the US were totally isolated. The rest of the hemisphere voted one way, and the US and Canada rejected it. So there couldn't be a consensus."
"Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language."
