World Hunger Quotes

• Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Doctors, Years

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.

  Harry Chapin

  Two, Goal, World

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• A hungry man is not a free man.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Men, Compassion

  Speech, Kasson, Minn., 6 Sept. 1952

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• The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Money, Economic Inequality, History

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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

  Norman Borlaug

  World, Food Banks, Ending Hunger

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

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• The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Justice, Poverty

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• Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

  Aristophanes

  No Friends, Ending Hunger, Knows

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1962). “The wasps: Translated by Douglass Parker”

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• We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Two, Long, Peaceful

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Humanity, World

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• When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

  Beau Bridges

  Kids, Giving, Childhood

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• You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Hunger And Poverty, Ecosystems

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• I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Dark, Reality

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  People, Needs, Roles

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• Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Years, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, War

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• Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

  Norman Borlaug

  Men, Justice, Desire

  "World Food Day and the Challenge to Solve World Hunger and Protect the Planet" by John Bryant, Dr. Jason Clay, Lisa Moon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Air, Water, Focus

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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, Food Banks

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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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• 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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• 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, Food Banks

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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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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