Food Banks Quotes

• 35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

  Jeff Bridges

  Country, Children, War

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• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

  Ed Asner

  Ending Hunger, World, Hungry

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• One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

  Jeff Bridges

  Differences, Knowing, America

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• Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

  Norman Borlaug

  World, Ending Hunger, Moral

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Poverty, Ending Hunger

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• 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

  Country, Organization, Childhood

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• Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

  Norman Borlaug

  Justice, Essentials, Adequate

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.

  Marlee Matlin

  Thanksgiving, Grateful, America

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• Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

  Pearl Bailey

  Peace, People, African American

  Pearl Bailey (1973). “Pearl's Kitchen: An Extraordinary Cookbook”, Harcourt

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• 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

  Country, Children, Ending Hunger

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• We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don't turn away.

  Lesley Boone

  Country, Children, Responsibility

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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• There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, World, Ending Hunger

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• America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  America, Childhood, Ending Hunger

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• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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• Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Blessed, Thinking

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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• Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

  Norman Borlaug

  Guiding Principles, Gmos, Justice

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play the piano in an Alzheimer's home. Or read in an Alzheimer's home. Help a military family with babysitting. The opportunities are endless. People often think 'They want me?' or 'I can be of help?' What we try to say here is 'Be who you are.'Feel that, live it and pass it on.

  Maria Shriver

  Military, Home, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.

  Ann Voskamp

  Country, Children, Real

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?

  Jennifer James

  Children, Optimistic, Views

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

  Tom Colicchio

  New York, Issues, Groups

  "Tom Colicchio on solving the hunger problem in America". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

  Aretha Franklin

  Community, Church, Detroit

  "Aretha Franklin Gives Christmas A Soulful Twist". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 21, 2008.

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• I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

  Paula Deen

  Country, Morning, Years

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