Frances Moore Lappé Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Democracy, Scarcity, Hunger

  "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life". Book by Frances Moore Lappé, 2005.

• 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 Lappé

  People, Promise, Democracy

• Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Democracy

• I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Dream, Organization, Long

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Democracy, Scarcity, Realization

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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