George McGovern Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• 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

  Country, Brother, Responsibility

• The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

  George McGovern

  Hands, Years, Humanity

  George McGovern (2001). “The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

• I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

  George McGovern

  United States, World, Able

• 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

  Cost, Done, Hunger

• 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

  Children, School, Lunch

• I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.

  George McGovern

  Goal, Millennials, Able

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