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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

  Commitment, Order, Sick

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• It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

  Craig T. Nelson

  People, United States, Wealth

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• I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

  Simone Weil

  Book, Moments, Appetite

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.15, Routledge

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• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

  Horace

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Lonely, Spring

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Class, People

  Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Jacob Hoye, Karolyn Ali, Walter Einenkel (2003). “Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.

  Tupac Shakur

  Song, Rapper, Doors

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• I think everyone's hungry for the truth

  Alanis Morissette

  Truth, Thinking

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• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Atheist, Men, Labels

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Men, Land

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6".

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• When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Law, Numbers, People

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• There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Reality, Differences

  "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

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• When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Sad, Hurt

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

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• When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Loneliness, Mean

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

  Lance Armstrong

  Giving Up, Nervous, Not Giving Up

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• The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.

  Glenn Archer

  Country, Wind, Nuts

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

  Dick Gregory

  Moon, Reality, America

  Dick Gregory (1972). “No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

  Dorothee Solle

  People, Justice, Diversity

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• I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

  Oscar Arias

  Hate, Believe, Mean

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• If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Heart, People

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press

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• Even if one is not hungry and although eat is called HumanBeing Even though one is hungry and although does not eat is HumanBeing

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Faith, Determination, Doe

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• We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Life, Success, Sports

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• When you start from nothing, when you come from nothing, it makes you hungry. I am proud of where I came from and I know what I want. I want to win.

  Maria Sharapova

  Winning, Tennis, Want

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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Eye, Night

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.360, GENERAL PRESS

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