*
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take
care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that
person what he or she needed -- Mother
Teresa
*A society
is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American,
I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want
to do my part to rectify this terrible situation. -- Marlo
Thomas
*
I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be
able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don’t
want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change.
And if I want that, I had better do something about it. -- Emma
Thompson
Let's share our
abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect
and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the
hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities
to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources
to end childhood hunger. -- John Travolta
*
just a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would make
a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated,
and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives. -- Desmond
Tutu
Because
there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions
of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving.
And yet, just a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would
make a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated,
and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives. -- Desmond
Tutu
*...just
a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense
budgets would make a real difference in enabling God's
children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and
be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.
-- Desmond
Tutu
When people were
hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed
you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. -- Desmond
Tutu
"I've
seen miracles in post-war situations, in famines, in places of horrendous brutal
subjugation and oppression, when women step forward and play their rightful role
in co-equal partnership with men. It's not the answer all by itself, but it is
a powerful and incredibly effective step to give women their rightful role and
voice and the resources to back it up." -- Lynne
Twist
"The
arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their
cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve." -- Vatican
statement to the U.N., 1976
In
this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable
that any child should go hungry. -- Sela Ward, actress
*
There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to
touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around
this planet. -- Dennis
Weaver
*
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from
hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. -- Simone
Weil
*
"Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance
no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations.
Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger."
-- Rachel Weisz
*
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity
can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident
is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our
lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above
all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that
when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom
depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. -- Elie
Wiesel
*
"In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die
very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing
this carnage to continue." -- Betty
Williams
*
"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers
that make an ordered life impossible." -- Woodrow
Wilson, 28th President of the United States
"As
we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer
food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves
spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend." -- Joseph B. Wirthlin (1924-)
*
Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to
access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents
of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end
hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income
for all -- Muhammad
Yunus
humans
are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they
did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue. --
Muhammad Yunus
