Most
Americans think of hunger as a problem affecting only places like India, Africa
or South America. But it is a tragic reality that our country has millions of
children who are suffering from lack of food. We must all work together to save
our country from this problem.
-- Beverly Johnson, supermodel
| "I
am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders
betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the
fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with
the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike
for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's
children."
-- Mother
Jones |
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I reject the notion that I sit idly by while our cities rot; our minority people
are oppressed, our elderly demeaned by semi-starvation and pauperism.
-- Mary
Metlay Kaufman |
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The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
-- John
F. Kennedy Never
before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst
and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human
misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history
of the world -- or to make it the last.
-- John
F. Kennedy | 
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"Because the suffering of any human being diminishes all of us, it’s our
responsibility to try to ease that suffering. It is not a matter of titles, but
of responsibilities.”
-- Khaled |
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table,
when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind
with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The
deficit is in human will.
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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Hope is not enough to change the world, to bring peace, to end starvation and
poverty, to provide a decent education for all children, or to prevent nuclear
holocaust. Yet it is a critical starting point for building a better and brighter
future. All of us are challenged to connect hope to action until we have created
a might river that will carve a new path to the future.
-- David
Krieger |  |
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Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction.
Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of
mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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There
is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger.
In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry.
Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not
developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally.
The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate...
-- Swoosie Kurtz
Our
great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable
to me that we have children and families going hungry!
-- Diane Ladd
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A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die
of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.
-- Susette La Flesche |
What can I
do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in
the greatest country on this planet.
-- Martin Landau, actor
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"No society
has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without
food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies
the existence of democracy."
--
Frances Moore Lappe
Hunger is a people-made
phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions
about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe |
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Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
-- John
Lennon
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The day hunger
disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever
seen.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca
The
people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
-- Lao Tzu
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Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger
nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe
-- Luiz Lula da Silva
The fight against
hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords
priority to social and economic development.
-- Lula
Well-fed
people can enhance their dignity, their health and
their learning capacity. Putting resources into
social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.
-- Luiz
Lula da Silva
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I
will never tire from repeating my commitment to ensuring that every Brazilian
can have breakfast, lunch and supper every day.
-- Lula
If with so little
we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global
scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international
community.
-- Lula
To know that
children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such
as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors,
will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring
back life to our most precious natural resource.
-- Joan Lunden
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"Our policy is directed
not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and
chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so
as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions
can exist."
-- George
C. Marshall (1880-1959) |
Every
child should be given the right to grow up and become a productive citizen. This
will not happen unless, at the very least, basic food needs are met. Ending childhood
hunger should be a national priority.
-- Pamela Sue Martin, actress
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We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something
that can be achieved at a rather modest cost
-- George
McGovern
Pay
attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention
to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our
brother’s keeper...
-- George
McGovern | 
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I didn’t used to
care about living a long time. Not that I wasn’t enjoying life, but I never sat
around asking how I’d get to be 100, you know. But now I want to live long enough
to see every school child in the world getting a good, nutritious lunch every
day.
-- George McGovern
It
saddens me to think that there are children in America
who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live
— and grow — without such a fundamental necessity as food.
If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could
end this crisis.
-- Tim McGraw, singer
We
cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality
of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children
who are malnourished in our country.
-- Donna Mills, actress
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“Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create
a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still
don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes
of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.”
-- Bill Moyers |
| Food – there’s
no greater gift...
-- Dikembe
Mutombo *
24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each
year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries. Food
– there’s no greater gift, and no better way to give it than the World Food Programme.
-- Dikembe
Mutombo | 
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It is unconscionable
for children in our prosperous country, or anywhere for that matter, to go without
food. I implore everyone to contact their local and state representatives to encourage
action to end hunger.
-- Kevin Nealon, comedian
It
is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people
that go hungry.
-- Craig T. Nelson, actor
